The master to study man in the awakening of his intellectual life 12
Attitude of the teacher in the light of another example 13
The school must permit the free natural manifestations of the child if in the school Scientific Pedagogy is to be born 15
Stationary desks and chairs proof that the principle of slavery still informs the school 16
Conquest of liberty, what the school needs 19
Prizes and punishments, the bench of the soul 21
All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force 24
Necessity of establishing the method peculiar to Scientific Pedagogy 28
Origin of educational system in use in the "Children's Houses" 31
Practical application of the methods of Itard and Séguin in the Orthophrenic School at Rome 32
Origin of the methods for the education of deficients 33
Application of the methods in Germany and France 35
Séguin's first didactic material was spiritual 37
Methods for deficients applied to the education of normal children 42
Social and pedagogic importance of the "Children's Houses" 44
INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF ONE OF THE "CHILDREN'S HOUSES"
The Quarter of San Lorenzo before and since the establishment of the "Children's Houses" 48
Evil of subletting the most cruel form of usury 50
The problem of life more profound than that of the intellectual elevation of the poor 52
Isolation of the masses of the poor, unknown to past centuries 53
Work of the Roman Association of Good Building and the moral importance of their reforms 56
The "Children's House" earned by the parents through their care of the building 60
Pedagogical organization of the "Children's House" 62
The "Children's House" the first step toward the socialisation of the house 65
The communised house in its relation to the home and to the spiritual evolution of women 66
Rules and regulations of the "Children's Houses" 70
PEDAGOGICAL METHODS USED IN THE "CHILDREN'S HOUSES"
Child psychology can be established only through the method of external observation 72
Environment and schoolroom furnishings 80
Abolition of prizes and external forms of punishment 101
Biological concept of liberty in pedagogy 104
Characteristics of the individual lessons 107
Method of observation the fundamental guide 108