Excerpt from Education During Adolescence: Based Partly on G. Stanley Hall's Psychology of Adolescence We must bear in mind that interest is the very Holy Ghost of education and that so-called formal studies and methods of discipline are only, for the most part, a delusion and a snare. They make degenerate mental tissue. It is not culture to learn to speak or write well upon trivial or indefinite subjects but rather to keep up with the great human interests, which will come to expression spontaneously if they are given a fair chance to do so. Even our educational psychology is for the most part antiquated. It lives, moves, and has its being in a pre-evolutionary age, and was, with a few striking exceptions, developed by those who had no knowledge of the wonderful advances that had been lately made in our knowledge of the will, feelings, sentiments, and especially of the great surge of racial life that always and everywhere tends to expand the soul of the individual in the teens toward the dimen sions of that of the race. These changes our system in general tends to ignore when they ought, on the contrary, to be more and more stressed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.