The idea that the school, especially the country school, should provide more than instruction in lessons for the scholars is Professor King's main point. Excellent chapters are included on The School as a Social Center, The School and Social Progress, and the Social Aim of Education. In discussing the rural schools particularly, the author writes on The Rural School and the Rural Community, Adapting the Country School to Country Needs, and an especially valuable chapter on The Consolidated School and Socially Efficient Education for the Country.
The response with which Professor King's "Education for Social Efficiency" has met throughout the country is evidenced by the fact that the States of Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, South Dakota, and Virginia have adopted it for reading circle use. It has also been adopted by the National Bureau of Education for use in its Rural Teachers' Reading Circles.
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Footnotes:
[1] Donaldson, "The Growth of the Brain," pp. 74, 238.
[2] Quoted by James, "Psychology," Briefer Course, p. 135.
[3] "Psychology," vol. i, pp. 123, 124; also, "Briefer Course," p. 145.
[4] See Betts, "The Distribution and Functions of Mental Imagery."
[5] Cf. Dewey, "How We Think," p. 2 ff.