The research on educational trends and methods reported in this book was made possible by the Commonwealth Fund and attests the interest in America in the correlation of school activities with better mental health. While many of the schools visited by the author are 'depressingly bad', an increasing number are making use of the knowledge derived from psychiatry to overcome difficulties which have contributed towards making education perfunctory and distasteful to the child. These are mainly the artificiality of the curriculum and its remoteness from current social and economic conditions, its traditional separateness from the