Table of contents

OUR FORMAL EDUCATION

How to find the right school? How to avoid misfits?
What's new in schools? In educational writing?
What effect has the war had? Who will survive?

The academic year
In the private schools  §  What are schools for?  §  Knowledge is for what?

THE CHILD'S INHERITANCE

How does heredity limit? Can cultural environment
change the intelligence? What is the evidence? Do we
consciously, unconsciously, modify the environment?

The raw material
The supply decreases  §  Season of birth  §  Schooling for whom? When?  §  Human plasticity

The world we come into
Unchanging?  §  Precedent does not determine  §  Wasting the land  §  The rape of the earth  §  The wastes of war  §  What is civilization?

What we bring with us
Choose your parents carefully  §  Nature and nurture  §  Our debt to heredity  §  About your genes  §  Hooton on heredity  §  The past may be negatived

Our cultural heritage
What is culture?  §  Culture determines behavior  §  Geography determines cultures  §   Isolation fixes customs  §  Without social heritage  §  Wild children of India  §  The baboon boy  §  Adjustment to the culture

Transmitting our culture
Successive generations maturer  §  The battle of the I.Q.  §  Is intelligence fixed?  §  Testing verbal learning  §  Identic twins  §  The schools do have a function

WHAT SHAPES LIVES

How is it millions face death by war? How far
do early influences shape and mold, inspire or frustrate?
May our lives be shaped by personalities unknown to us?

What influences the individual
Your children's future  §  What your boy faces  §  Again our boys face "Verdun"

What the home does
Prolonged infancy  §  Perils of the home  §  Dangers of civilization

What influence have teachers?
Do teachers care?  §  Schooling our future soldiers  §  Disintegrating personality §  Integrating personality

How our fellows affect us
What the schools recognize  §  Hidden influences  §  Keeping minds diverted  §  Preventing cerebration  §  Front men  §  Behind the scenes  §  The usurer comes and goes

How powerful men change our lives
Discipline and respect  §  Oil is power  §  Most powerful personalities  §  Royal Dutch Shell  §  Propaganda and power  §  Deterding's successors  §  Zaharoff the mysterious  §  Men, motives, methods

THE PROBLEM OF MAN

What makes me do as I do? Can we learn
how the mind works? Can magic, the occult or supernatural
explain my actions? Why our interest in others lives?

The mystery of man
Our moral responsibility  §  The school's responsibility  §  What makes me do as I do?  §  Why "Why?"  §  Why and how  §  Authority and maladjustment  §  His greatest mystery himself  §  Behind the mask

Biographical interpretations
Other people's lives  §  Modes of living  §  Why read biography?  §  Increased biographical hunger  §  Culture is an aggregate of personalities  §  Explorations in personality  §  Standards for life histories  §  The coming alibiography

Discovering the mind
Out of the bedlams  §  Out of the woods  §  Inside our skulls  §  Brains matter  §  An aristocratic tabu-breaker  §  Detecting the morons

The psychological pioneers
Back to the apes  §  Measuring the immeasuable  §  Then came the war  §  The discovery of the child  §  An Irish pragmatist  §  "Talks to teachers"  §  The patriarch of Fort Defiance

WHAT INFLUENCES OUR BEHAVIOR

What determines how we act from day to day,
from year to year? What moves us? What deters us?
What preserves our self-respect, the will to live?

The biologist examines behavior
Animal behavior  §  Making the "instincts" extinct  §  Conditioning response  §  Pavlov and his school  §  The conditioned reflex  §  The subconscious  §  The concept of consciousness  §  The process of knowing  §  "Behavior has shape"  §  The biology of behavior

The importance of motive
Duty  §  Feelings  §  Attraction and repulsion  §  Fear, hate, and understanding  §  The unfamiliar  §  Distorting the emotions  §  Tabus on motives  §  Self-starters  §  Instincts for the lazy  §  Take away the apple

Magnifying the ego
The money motive  §  Economic self-interet  §  The myth of economic man  §  The biology of the profit motive  §  The psychology of the profit motive  §  Human motivations  §  What a big boy am I!  §  No one works for money  §  Satisfying the libido  §  The craving for approbration  §  Social power  §  Precedence  §  Dominance  §  The determinist  §  Influencing others  §  "Except he interpret"

FORCES THAT CHANGE US

Why do we deny the effect of forces? What kinds
of forces are there? Sovereignty? Government?
What is moral force? Who uses it? How? What effect has it?

Forces determine lives
The child before you  §  Educational racketeering  §  Hypocrisy about force  §  Forces should be understood  §  Economize on force  §  What is force?  §  Becoming conscious of force  §  Social forces  §  You cannot escape force  §  Accent on power

Methods of controlling behavior
Conditioning the young  §  Types of power  §  Sources and limits of political power  §  A social analysis of power  §  Law and order  §  Law implies acceptance  §  The "theory" of sovereignty  §  The technique of sovereignty  §  The "art" of ruling  §  Government of apes and morons  §  Physical, mental, and moral force

Moral force
Exploiting morality  §  Stirring the emotions  §  A moral war  §  Bloodthirsty preachers  §  Fighting evil with evil  §  Moral suasion  §  The hero and the villain  §  Establishing hate  §  Vilifying the enemy  §  Appeal to the liberals  §  Union now  §  United in moral purpose

SOURCES OF IDEAS, FEELINGS

How do you know what's right? Where did you get
that idea? Who told you so? What was their intent?
Have they deceived you? How do they get at you?

What makes you think so?
Ideas, beliefs, convictions  §  What is an opinion?  §  Questioning and challenging  §  Treasuring the worn out  §  Accepting the handout  §  Made opinion  §  Spreading infection  §  Emotional insanity  §  What's right and when?

The nature of propaganda
Teaching or propagandizing  §  In the schools  §  "Education for democracy"  §  A moral force  §  The religion of nationalism  §  The importance of propaganda  §  Out of the need of empire  §  Lord Milner's "kindergarten"  §  The morality of imperialism  §  The Foreign Office  §  Intelligence services  §  The perversion of propaganda  §  A task well done  §  American gullibility  §  Becoming aware of propaganda  §  Wellington House  §  Crewe House and Creel Bureau  §  Secrecy essential  §  Recent revelations  §  Propaganda won the war

The modern technique
The highest testimonial  §  Results become apparent  §  Involving America  §  Better methods  §  Expurgation of the superfluous  §  The Vansitt art  §  The British Council  §  Lord Lloyd  §  Ministry of information recruits  §  A propagandist rebels  §  Imperial policy group reports  §  The Royal Institute publishes  §  Lothian's Round Table  §  Secret alliance with Britain  §  The unnoticed man  §  What has Vansittart been doing?  §  The brains of the Empire  §  "He planned it that way."

Instruments of propaganda
The new weapons  §  Degradation of educational devices  §  Prostituting the movies  §  Propaganda movies  §  Banking controls the movies.  §  Creating heroes and villains  §  The radio voice  §  The insidious newspapers  §  Our pro-British press  §  The printed word  §  Killing the muckrakers  §  Information under control  §  The personal touch  §  Parade of the propagandists

Countering propaganda
Meeting an emergency  §  Protecting the gullible  §  Analyzing propaganda  §  Sources of information  §  The columnists  §  The private newsletter  §  Countering bunk in books  §  The democratic process

EDUCATIONAL CONTROL

How far does education control us? Is education controlled?
By whom? How far does money control? How far tradition?
How do universities affect schools?

Universities promote war
They are an easy mark  §  "Disastrous collective suggestions"  §  No compromise  §  How come?  §  A type specimen  §  Why pick on Harvard?  §  They are an easy mark  §  A fog of fear  §  "What are the bugles blowing for?"  §  The temperature of 1917  §  Undergraduates in revolt  §  Protest at propaganda  §  Selected news of events  §  Propaganda fashions at Harvard  §  Pathetic intimidation  §  Creating wants  §  Our hysterical alumni  §  The spirit of inquiry is dead  §  What are the answers?  §  And so to war

How universities are controlled
University control  §  The control of Harvard  §  The men elected  §  Bringing them into line  §  The Hicks-Whitney coverup  §  How the system works  §  Liaison officer  §  Rewarding faithful servants  §  We are creatures of environment  §  An influential alumnus  §  What's published and taught  §  British empire agencies  §  Harvard British headquarters

How foundations influence
Managers of wealth  §  Reservoirs of surplus capital  §  Philanthropy and education  §  Endowments for war  §  Philanthropy from the grave  §  Foundation Janizaries  §  Interlocking directorates  §  A menace to democracy  §  Subversive to academic freedom  §  Penance for pensions

How the executive functions
Pity the poor president  §  When he opens his mouth  §  Theory of executive control  §  Theory of authority

Controlling mental content
Universities dominate  §  The dead hand  §  Why control education?  §  Totalitarian control

WHAT IS THE RESULT

Is the school product sound, sane, useful?
Does our social system fit the times? Does our education?
Can waste and warfare be diminished? Are they inevitable?

Some results of our education
Who can read or write?  §  Delinquency responsibility  §  Unsalable product  §  Book learning  §  Reality and romance

Our present maladjustment
It's so comfortable to be adjusted  §  Adjusting is painful  §  Search for security  §  Speed and power  §  Horse-and-buggy institutions  §  The economic breakdown  §  Our laggard education

What can be done?
Our adaptable species  §  Reducing waste  §  The biological approach  §  The anthropological approach  §  Organized knowledge  §  A science of man  §  Social engineering  §  Why don't we get on?  §  Demand the truth

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