3. That intellectual progress is conditioned at every step by bodily vigor, and that to attain the best results, physical exercises must accompany and condition mental training.
4. That children must first be trained in the mother-tongue, and that all the elementary knowledge should be acquired through that medium.
5. That nature study must be made the basis of all primary instruction, so that the child may exercise his senses and be trained to acquire knowledge at first hand.
6. That the child must be wisely trained during its earliest years, for which purpose mothers must be trained for the high and holy mission of instructing little children, and women generally be given more extended educational opportunities.
7. That the school course must be enriched by the addition of such useful studies as geography and history.
8. That the subjects of study must be so correlated and coördinated that they may form a common unit of thought.
9. That teachers must be specially trained.
10. That schools must be more rationally graded and better supervised.
11. That languages must be taught as “living organic wholes fitted for the purposes of life, and not as the lifeless tabulations of the grammarians.”