The Great Discovery: Sanderson and the New Spirit in Education.

Describes efforts of William Sanderson, a schoolteacher, to make student learning an interesting process. Development of school work in his Oundle school; History of teaching methods; View that every child is naturally keenly interested in some subject; Efforts of Sanderson to develop new interesting methods in the teaching of science and mathematics; Success of Junior Conversazione where pupils show experiments and collections they had cooperated to produce; Efforts of Sanderson to develop new methods for teaching literature and history including the method of group system; Scheme of operations followed by Sanderson while making a group of pupils study the period of 1783-1905; Benefits of a group system of learning and teaching; Vision of Sanderson regarding students' future.