ABSTRACT
If we compare present-day school buildings, content and equipment of education, the behaviour of teachers towards their pupils, and the physical and mental development of children themselves, with their counterparts of one hundred years ago, the differences are so great that we might be very satisfied with ourselves. Changes in the economic and social structure of societies, effected by the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, have been so dramatic and so great that their impact on education has virtually transformed it. The relative absence of mental illness in primitive societies seems to point to the fact that the stress and strain which lead to anxiety and fear arise from the nature of the social fabric and its influence on the individual than from the inherent nature of the individual himself. The structures which make up the central nervous system are the brain and spinal cord. The brain sends out electrical impulses when the organism is actively responding to stimulus.
