ABSTRACT
MOST EDUCATORS would agree with the assertion that children should be educated along the lines of their interest and not against them. Children in the junior school are active people full of curiosity about the world in which they live, eager for things to do and almost unable to sit still; practical and imaginative along practical lines but with little interest in theories or generalizations as such; as these facts are true about most children of this age— no matter what type of school they attend, the Consultative Committee reporting to the Board of Education on the Primary School 1 gave the fundamental condition for a good curriculum when demanding that 'the curriculum is to be thought of in terms of activity and experience rather than of knowledge to be acquired. Its aim should be to develop in a child the fundamental human powers and to awaken him to the fundamental interests of civilized life so far as these interests and powers lie within the compass of childhood, to encourage him to attain gradually to that control and orderly management of his energies, impulses, and emotions which is the essence of moral and intellectual discipline, to help him to discover the idea of duty and to ensure it, and to open out his imagination and sympathies in such a way that he may 21be prepared to understand and to follow in later years the highest examples of excellence in life and conduct.'
