A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO The Science, Art, Philosophy and FRANK HERBERT PALMER, Editor VOLUME XXXI SEPTEMBER, 1910-JUNE, 1911 BOSTON THE PALMER COMPANY 120 BOYLSTON STREET 1911 CONTENTS. Agriculture, Place of in Higher Education. L. H. Bailey 249 175 406, 480, 550, 624, 690 Art, History of as a College Discipline. T. Lindsey Blayney 63, 136, 206, 267, 349, 415, 490, 562, 634, 701 Business, College Training for. John M. Lathrop Certification of High School Teachers. David Snedden Classics, Some Uses of to Modern Student. Preston S. Moulton School. W. H. Holmes College Preparation; The College View. Alexander Meiklejohn College Stagecraft. Frank R. Arnold College Students, Self Help among. Clayton H. Ranck How it can Help the High 567 578 585 289 466 444 244 456 449 Conversational Method, The. Will Grant Chambers Correspondence Schools. Frank Herbert Palmer Curriculum, A Secondary School. B. F. Harding Elementary School Ideals. Katharine Woodward Huston English, Differentiation of the High School Course in. President English Grammar, Waste in. Guy W. Shallies 536 The Sketch Book Exceptional Children, Instruction of. Andrew W. Edson 60, 133, 204, 264, 347, 412, 487, 559, 631 French Literary Anniversaries of 1911. Mattie Wilma Stubbs Geography, Where lay the Emphasis in Teaching? R. H. Whitbeck German Schools, Religious Problem in. Arley B. Show Girls, Vocational Training for. Idabelle McGlauflin High School Course in English. President Charles W. Eliot High School, How Serve Community. Charles F. Harper 355 103 High School Teachers, Certification of. David Snedden History, Outlook in Teaching. Charles Welsh Home and School. Superintendent J. M. Greenwood Hygiene, School, Physiological Aspects of. George V. N. Dearborn Interest, Some Suggestions Concerning. Frank D. Blodgett Japanese Secondary Education. Sekiji Nishiyama Lengthening Days, The. (Poem) Julia H. May Literary Excellence, the Standard of. Manual Training, Course of Study in. Moral Training of Private-School Boys. National Education Association Notes Negroes, A great National Resource. Frank P. Chisholm Ode, An. (Poem) William A. McKeever Oral Composition. Emma M. Bolenius Private-School Boys, Moral Training of. Charles K. Taylor Public Speaking. Oliver Van Wagnen Religious Freedom of the Schools. Mary H. Leonard 669 Religious Problem in German Schools. Arley B. Show Schools, The Common. M. A. Cassidy Schools, What they Need. Randal J. Condon Student Organizations in City High Schools. David E. Cloyd Sunday School Curriculum. William C. Ruediger Teacher's Attitude toward his Profession. Edwin C. Browne Teacher, Higher Recognition for the. Walter E. Ranger Teaching, Choosing it as a Profession. W. H. P. Faunce Thread, the Rotten. (Poem) Helen Cary Chadwick Vocational Training for Girls. Idabelle McGlauflin Vocational Training in Elementary Schools. Gustaf Larsson Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature VOL. XXXI of Education SEPTEMBER, 1910 No. I Instruction of Exceptional Children in the New York City Public Schools ANDREW W. EDSON, ASSOCIATE CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. I N all probability the most striking phase of modern education is the effort to educate and train children who are a little out of step with the masses. The problems to be worked out in the administration of the public school system in every large city are especially perplexing in New York City, owing to the rapidity of growth of the city, the congestion of population in certain quarters, and the many nationalities to be educated. In considering these problems, certain facts have had to be accepted and certain principles of action adopted. Among them are the following: education is the right of every childthe physically and mentally handicapped, the truant and delinquent, as well as the normal child; the state is under obligations to provide an education for all; special efforts should be directed toward making exceptional children happy, selfrespecting, and self-supporting; the cost of education is a productive expenditure of money rather than a charity; and it is economical as well as humanitarian to protect the helpless from want, the irresponsible from ignorance and vice, the family from an unusual burden, and the state from an increase of the helpless and criminal classes. . The main reason for establishing classes in the public |