Excerpt from The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Child, Vol. 1: Containing the Chapters on Perception, Emotion, Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness<br><br>The theory of education rests on two pillars. One is the study of the ideals of civilization and the demands of the institutions in which the future man or woman is to live his or her life; the other is the study of the child in order to dis cover in him what rudimentary tendencies there are, favourable or unfavourable to culture, and to ascertain the best methods of encouraging the right tendencies and suppressing the wrong ones.<br><br>It naturally happens that some of the most enthusiastic investigators would persuade them selves that child study is all that is necessary to furnish full data for the founding of a complete theory of education. Such persons borrow from other investigators - or Oftener from the cur rent practice about them - their opinions regard ing the branches of study, their co-ordination or subordination, and they borrow, moreover, from the teachers who have taught the traditional branches in school for the most part the methods which have been discovered to teach effectively these branches. A little consideration will lead one of them to the conviction that the course of study, the needs of civilization, and the art Ofviii the development OF the child.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.