DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION THE GOLDEN RULE SERIES THE GOLDEN DEED BOOK A SCHOOL READER BY E. HERSHEY SNEATH, PH.D., LL.D. PROFESSOR IN YALE UNIVERSITY GEORGE HODGES, D.D., D.C.L. DEAN OF THE EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE AND EDWARD LAWRENCE STEVENS, PH.D., L.H.D. ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS PREFACE THIS Series of books embodies a graded system of moral instruction. The method of instruction involved in the Scheme is the indirect method. It introduces the pupil, in a concrete and interesting manner, to the subject matter of morals, by means of fairy tale, myth, fable, allegory, parable, legend, stories of real life, of heroes and heroines, biography, and historical incident. This method was adopted in preference to the more formal, direct, and didactic methods, because of an induction based on a questionnaire circulated among the teachers of ten cities, nearly ninety-five per cent of whom favored the indirect method. This induction is supported, also, by investigations relating to the moral nature in the field of child psychology, and the psychology of the first years of adolescence. In composition, selection, and arrangement of material, attention has been given to the laws V |