FOOTNOTES:
[1] Now ten.
[2] Now ten.
[3] Now over 300 in 1924.
[4] I quote from the article on Psychology in the Encyclopædia Britannica as being the most likely to exhibit the authoritative position.
[5] The Home Education Series.
[6] In connection with the Parents’ Union School.
[7] The small Practising School attached to the House of Education (ages of scholars from six to eighteen) affords opportunities for testing the programmes of work sent out term by term, and the examinations set at the end of each term. The work in each Form is easily done in the hours of morning-school.
[8] I again quote from the article on Psychology in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
[9] See Some Discussions of the Method. (P.N.E.U. Office, [1]/-).
[10] The Home Education Series.
[11] Home Education, by the Writer.
[12] See Some Studies in the Formation of Character, by the Writer.
[13] See Some Impressions of the Ambleside Method. (P.N.E.U. Office, price 9d.)
[14] See Ourselves, our Souls and Bodies. By the Writer. (P.N.E.U. Office.)
[15] Ourselves, our Souls and Bodies. By the Writer.
[16] Parents and Children. By the Writer.
[17] See Some Impressions of the Ambleside Method. (P.N.E.U. Office, price 9d.)
[18] Isaiah xxviii.
[19] Parents and Children, by the Writer.
[20] Education from a National Standpoint.
[21] The Herbartian Psychology applied to Education, by John Adams.
[22] Across the Bridges, by A. Paterson.
[23] Across the Bridges, by A. Paterson.
[24] Memoirs of Count Witte.
[25] Education of the Young.
[26] What Religion Is, by Bernard Bosanquet, D.C.L.
[27] All particulars may be had from The Director, Parents’ Union School, Ambleside. The illustrations in the way of children’s answers for the various sections of this chapter have been omitted for want of space, except in the case of a few answers under Composition.
[28] Examples of the work of scholars of various ages illustrating what has been said may be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.
[29] This book is now in print again.
[30] Of the Parents’ Union School.
[31] Examination papers giving some idea of the scope of the history studies in the P.U.S. may be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.
[32] Examination Papers can be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.
[33] Examination Papers can be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.
[34] These answers are uncorrected and are taken from Examination papers not sent back. Most parents and teachers have their papers returned.
[35] Examination answers can be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.
[36] For details see the Parents’ Union School programmes.
[37] Specimens of the children’s Examination work can be seen at the P.N.E.U. Office.
[38] The Ambleside Geography; Book IV, by the Writer.
[39] Ambleside Geography: Book IV.
[40] The Ambleside Geography: Book V, by the Writer.
[41] For details see the Parents’ Union School programmes.
[42] Citizens to Be, by Miss M. L. V. Hughes.
[43] cf. “Introduction.”
[44] pp. [13 to 15].
[45] The P.U.S. was started in 1890.
[46] These are omitted for want of space but other sets can be seen at the Office of the P.N.E.U.
[48] See [Chapter X].
[49] cf. Continuation Schools, ed. by Sir Michael Sadler, and published by the Manchester University, 1908, to which the writer is greatly indebted.
[51] 1890.
[52] 1913.
[53] In Elementary and Continuation Schools.
[54] The Author owes to the Editor of The Times permission to reprint the chapters under this heading written in 1912; as also the happy titles of the several chapters and the general title.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Footnote [47] is referenced twice from [page 275].
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg xxii]: an entry for ‘Index 349’ has been added at the end of the Table of Contents.
[Pg 3]: ‘about Nietszche’ replaced by ‘about Nietzsche’.
[Pg 17]: ‘a congerie of’ replaced by ‘a coterie of’.
[Pg 72]: ‘Not, again, can we’ replaced by ‘Nor, again, can we’.
[Pg 82]: ‘the idiosyncracies’ replaced by ‘the idiosyncrasies’.
[Pg 89]: ‘satiable curtiosity’ replaced by ‘satiable curiosity’.
[Pg 139]: ‘irrefragible proofs’ replaced by ‘irrefragable proofs’.
[Pg 140]: ‘no more then they’ replaced by ‘no more than they’.
[Pg 168]: ‘clothes and ca e’ replaced by ‘clothes and care’.
[Pg 181]: ‘by naming it D2’ replaced by ‘by naming it K2’.
[Pg 197]: ‘statemen all’ replaced by ‘statesmen all’.
[Pg 200]: ‘And ne tles close’ replaced by ‘And nestles close’.
[Pg 202]: ‘eyes for thoes’ replaced by ‘eyes for those’.
[Pg 232]: ‘perfer not to have’ replaced by ‘prefer not to have’.
[Pg 275]: ‘by Velasqeuz which’ replaced by ‘by Velasquez which’.
[Pg 334]: ‘irrefragibly logical’ replaced ‘irrefragably logical’.
[Pg 357]: ‘Nietszche, [3]’ replaced by ‘Nietzsche, [3]’.