The Vitalized School

The author argues that schooling should be continuous with life, presenting teaching as the laboratory method for interpreting and enlarging children's lived experience. Emphasis falls on cultivating intense, reactive learning through teacher-guided inquiry, child-centered organization, and practical links between school and community. Chapters examine the teacher's roles as artist, leader, and tactful politician, and address curricular matters such as recitation, agriculture, poetry, humor, examinations, democracy, patriotism, and world-building. Practical suggestions and a descriptive model illustrate how schools can be reorganized to vitalize instruction, foster social responsibility, and promote fuller, more adaptive personal growth.