ABSTRACT
IN THIS section I am proposing to deal with the work of children between the ages of ten and eleven plus, after which age the great majority of children begin some sort of secondary education, either in a grammar, or technical or modern secondary school. The few who are going to stay at a private preparatory school and enter their public school at thirteen plus, do in these cases begin secondary education, as the term is understood in the official world. For example, they are acquiring at least one foreign language, they are rightly busy with the study of subjects, whereas in the usual junior school the child in the leavers' class should be beginning the generalizations that lead to the study of history, geography, etc. But whatever type of education is proposed for the children above eleven, they should all be at work, it seems to me, on some such lines as are suggested in this chapter between the ages of nine and eleven.
