ABSTRACT
IT is true that a child must work with the endowments present at birth in his first attempt to make a place for himself in life, but it must not be forgotten that intelligence is also an innate quality and probably from the earliest days is occupied in modifying the native reactions to life. This modifying and moulding capacity which we call intelligence is the essential condition for education; in apes or dogs and lowlier animals it makes the achievement of instinctive ends quicker, and the pursuit of those that are not purely instinctive possible. In mankind it is, with his growing sentiments, the most potent control of conduct and in a rudimentary form it is so with young children.
