this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-
humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the
other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good
sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the tune, and we
shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
[Footnote: Emerson, essay on _Self-reliance_.]





PART III

CONCLUSIONS




CHAPTER XI

FULL MEANING OF STUDY: RELATION OF STUDY TO CHILDREN AND TO THE SCHOOL



_The meaning of study._

True or logical study is not aimless mental activity or a passive
reception of ideas only for the sake of having them. It is the
vigorous application of the mind to a subject for the satisfaction of
a felt need. Instead of being aimless, every portion of effort put