ABSTRACT
At thirteen years, children, as a result of experience, were able in some measure to abstract facts for use in activity, to generalize on the basis of repeated use of the facts and to formulate principles on the strength of substantiated generalizations. The programs for the older children of the school, and in particular for Groups XI and XII, were highly experimental in character. The school was a miniature social group where study and growth were incident to shared activity. One of the vital interests of Group X was photography. As Group IX they had made pin-hole cameras in the shop and were anxious to perfect these and go on to the actual taking, development, and printing of pictures. Out of the actual, pressing, and felt need of the children the idea of the club-house was born—an actual house planned, built, and furnished by themselves.
