Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at. The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

Thought is impossible without words.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.

While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association in connection with the association of the older with the younger.