ABSTRACT
Nursery School teachers are learning to respect the reality and intensity of the child’s feelings and to realise something of their complexity. They were often taught that there was only one best or right way for all children to behave if their physical welfare was to be achieved and they therefore aimed at achieving uniform behaviour and remonstrated with parents if they pleaded that their children were not suited to the routine. The child’s feelings are not all anxious ones. Children abandon themselves with equal whole-heartedness to transports of delight, joy and wonder. In earlier days Nursery School teachers were sometimes trained to avoid expressions of spontaneous affection. As children develop friendly relations with each other much conversation arises between them.
