THE STUDY OF CHILDREN AND THEIR SCHOOL TRAINING BY FRANCIS WARNER, M.D. (LOND.) F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (ENG.) PHYSICIAN TO AND LECTURER AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE HUNGARIAN SOCIETY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT BUDAPEST London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY CHAPTER 1. Introductory; 2. The Body of the Child: its Construction and Growth; 3. The Brain: its Development and Evolution; 4. Observing the Child: what to look at and what to look for; 5. Principles of the Methods of observing and describing Children; 6. Points for Observation, indicating Faults in Body or Bra'n-Action, or a Status below the Normal; 7. Examination of Mental Ability and the Faults that may be observed; 8. Some General Conditions in Children Described; 9. Types of Childhood; and Groups of Children below the Normal; 10. Adolescence; 11. The Care of Children and their Training; 12. Hygiene and Health Management during Schoollife; 13. Propositions concerning Childhood. INDEX. PRESS OPINIONS Times. "An exceedingly valuable record of the results of extensive observation. There are very few parents or teachers, however observant, who will not be enabled, by a careful use of Dr. Warner's methods, to understand and to train children better than they did before." Daily Chronicle.—“A uo less interesting than useful volume." British Medical Journal.-"The book cannot fail to be most sugges tive to teachers who wish to bring their methods into line with modern scientific views of childhood. Many aspects of the subject will be of interest to the medical observer also." Literature." The teacher, and parent too, must learn that physical phenomena, and especially the phenomena of movement, are both cause and effect of 'mental' phenomena, and that a defect on one side must be treated, not merely on that side only, but by simultaneous stimulation of the mental and physical activities. For these purposes Dr. Warner's Manual is exceedingly useful." Daily Mail.-"Fulfils an important mission. His statistical tables, based on an examination of 100,000 children, are eminently instructive." Manchester Guardian.-"At the present time when the question of improving the education of the dull and mentally feeble children in our Board Schools is occupying a good deal of attention, his book comes opportunely, and should be carefully studied by all those engaged in directing education and other forms of social work." Scotsman." A scientific study on the lines laid down in this suggestive and well-written volume could not but prove of advantage to all classes of teachers." THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE CHILD ITS GROWTH AND HEALTH IN EDUCATION BY FRANCIS WARNER, M.D. (LOND.) PHYSICIAN TO AND LECTURER AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN TO THE ROYAL AUTHOR OF "THE STUDY OF CHILDREN AND THEIR SCHOOL TRAINING," ETC, London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Introductory; II. The Brain and Body in Infancy and Early Childhood; III. The Child at School; IV. Observation, Description, and Classification of Children in School; V. Evolution of the Child and his Brain Power; VI. Physical Care of the Child-Hygiene and Feeding; VII. The Training and Teaching of Young Children; VIII. Advancing School Method and Teaching; IX. The Nerve Centres in Infancy, School Life, and Adolescence-their Health and Training; X. Mental Hygiene and Voluntary Mental Power; Index. Spectator." He points out what a large and increasing share in education the medical profession are taking, especially in the training of dull or backward children. An observant teacher, by noticing such abnormal nerve-signs as indicate mental deficiency, can by various little exercises, apparently physical, stimulate the slow faculties." THE Meaning of Education AND OTHER ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES BY NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved CONTENTS The Meaning of Education; What Knowledge is of Most Worth? Is there a New Education? Democracy and Education; The American College and the American University; The Function of the Secondary School; The Reform of Secondary Education in the United States. PRESS OPINIONS Cambridge Review.- -"The lectures are unpretentious, readable, and interesting as suggesting some of the methods in which the people of America are approaching the subjects of national education, which sooner or later the people of this country will be perforce compelled to consider." Glasgow Herald. "Well-informed and stimulating addresses." Speaker.-"The book contains much, chiefly in the way of suggestion, which English teachers will find well worthy of study." THE Development of the Child BY NATHAN OPPENHEIM ATTENDING PHYSICIAN TO THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT OF MT. SINAI HOSPITAL DISPENSARY London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY All rights reserved CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Introductory; II. and III. Facts in the Comparative Development of the Child; IV. Comparative Importance of Heredity and Environment; V. The Place of the Primary School in the Development of the Child; VI. The Place of Religion in the Development of the Child; VII. The Value of the Child as a Witness in Suits at Law; VIII. The Development of the Child-Criminal; IX. The Child's Development as a Factor in producing the Genius or the Defective; X. Institutional Life in the Development of the Child; XI. The Profession of Maternity. |