3. Is it largely true that the personal or biographic appeals most to the child; the speculative, to the boy; the vitally and concretely constructive, to the youth; and the critical and philosophical to the adult? If so, what should be the character of the work in history in the high school?
X. The Process of Learning History.
1. Acquiring and relating detailed facts.
2. Formulating a mental picture of the events.
3. Analyzing the conditions and determining the vital, distinguishing characteristics.
4. Getting back of the outer forms, visible expression, or the vital facts to the real life of the people—their ideals, ideas, emotions, and beliefs.
5. Discovering the motives that produced the events considered.
6. Deducing the principles that operate in human relations.
7. Applying those principles to contemporary civilization to-day, and foreshadowing the probable trend of society in the future.