ABSTRACT

If the development of the nursery school has been slow, we may yet be grateful that it has been in the hands of enlightened pioneers who have been alive to its responsibilities and aims. But the school aims also at bringing into itself the interest and contribution of the outside world. The League of Nations, and the Red Cross Society, are only two out of many organizations which realize that in the school lies their most fruitful soil. Compulsory education is a comparatively recent development and the schools originally designed to meet this demand envisaged a very limited aim. In conclusion we may allude to one other type of organization which has, as its acknowledged aim, the helping of those children who have met, in greater or less degree, with disaster in their efforts at adjustment to the social environment.