The Natural Development of the Child. A Guide for Parents, Teachers, Students and Others

In an age when the study of the psychology of the child has received in Europe and America an impetus to which few subjects have ever been submitted, it was inevitable that something of high pressure salesmanship should have crept into many of the preparations offered. The child by some is represented as a battery of high voltage continuously emitting charges often of dangerous strength, and best handled only by the initiated. By others, he is pictured as an amoeba-like mass of sensitive protoplasm, assuming shape and form only from stimuli applied by his environment and