ABSTRACT
To some extent Susan Isaacs's life until this point may be said to have been a long and thorough preparation for the two greatest contributions of her life which came from her work first at the Malting House School and later at the Department of Child Development. In the spring of 1924 a startling advertisement appeared in display type and edged with a striking border which occupied a whole page in certain journals, including the New Statesman and the British Journal of Psychology. The primary logical stages of the main divisions of learning – mathematics, language, biology, history – were borne in mind all the time, and the physical environment and the adult behaviour so arranged that the children were naturally led to notice, to explore and to follow up. Susan' work at the Malting House School may, therefore, be claimed as one of the great influences on the education of children under seven in the State schools of country.
