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Only by analyzing the idea of silence we can include this attitude among the virtues of those who perform the teaching function. The doctor García Hoz defines silence as the absence of every useless word. The idea of silence is justified in the teaching function if we consider the value it has for the intellectual and moral education. In the first aspect it is generally acknowledged the superiority of direct, silent learning and the necessity of training the pupil to learn by his own. In the second aspect silence is an excellent means to avoid

Doctor Font y Puig continues his study of the Hindu sources with a clear, precise design of historifying the most important pedagogical sources. So he does an analytical study of the Upanishads pointing out some apparently contradictory but easily convertible notes. That is why the extension of wisdom to other casts than the Brahmanic one is only possible when the new individuals have the peculiar conditions which can be demanded or supposed to the brahmans. Having account of the high rank that the Upanishads acknowledge to the teaching function

D. Pedro Poveda Castroverde (1876-1936) can be considered as the founder of a feminine pedagogy through his foundation called the «Theresian Institution». The following items of his doctrine are studied in this article: A preliminary supposition where the position of woman in our society according to the author's opinion is considered. The fundamental principle on which this pedagogy is based and which is only but the «Christian Humanism». This humanism is not to be literally understood but as a pedagogical application of the Incarnation. Feminine

The author tries to give a whole idea of the organization and character of the agricultural secondary teaching in England and Wales, its principal direction being contained in the rapport drawn by the Loveday Commision in 1945. It is to be noted the English trend to suppress the exclusively technical or professiontal secondary schools in a strict sense. The agricultural secondary teaching tries to prepare those wo will later on occupy positions of responsibility in the agricultural industry so that they may be clever, useful members in the rural

In this article the author shows the results he obtained when revising and adapting the additional test of vocabulary in its form of collective test which Wechsler included in the Bellevue scale to find out the adult intelligence. He does not confine himself to show those results; on the contrary after outlining the problematic about the fundamental criterions of measurement of the vocabulary wealth he interprets the mean and differential values he obtained to continue determining the corelation existing to oter linguistic tests whether intellectual