10 DECEMBER 1921, Page 26

An Experiment in Synthetic Education. By Emily C. Wilson. (G.

Allen and Unwin. 4s. 6d. net).—A practical account for teachers who are among " the converted " of how a teacher put the new " humanistic " methods of education into practice for children from. 10 to 15. The keynote of Miss Wilson's method is, as the name of the book implies, the breakieg down of watertight compartments. Every study to which the child is introduced has a bearing upon every other study.