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The school is thus lagging behind business in appreciating the value of suggestion in learning. This fault should be corrected. There are two types of suggestion that can be used with advantage in educational work. A great majority of students can be aroused to hard study by up-to-date information about natural and social sciences, in a dramatic form; by appealing to their personal interests; by a wealth of concrete examples; by an intelligent approach to their emotions and imagination; and in a hundred other ways. The life-like suggestiveness of facts drawn directly from experience and reality and cleverly presented, is all they really require. In such cases, hypnosis can not, and ought not to, be used as a substitute for regular educational practices.Then again there are individuals who, for various reasons, fail to respond to simple suggestion by words and example. They may be victims of unfortunate experiences that had conditioned them wrongly to school work; they may be suffering from some form of neurosis; they may be affected by some bodily or mental idiosyncrasy, putting them into a class by themselves. In quite a few of these cases, hypnosis can be of valuable service, either in freeing the individual from his psychological difficulties or in stimulating his interests, which refuse to be aroused in normal ways. Imagination, particularly, is a capacity which admits of great intensification through hypnotic (oneirotic) suggestion and can be utilized in many different ways to facilitate pedagogic purposes.