ABSTRACT
The purpose of this pamphlet is to make clear the educational value of the nursery school for the young child. We shall focus our attention mainly upon the child's mental life and his needs as a human being, with wishes and purposes in relation to other people, and shall say very little about the service which the nursery school renders to his bodily health and growth. Much has already been written on the value of the nursery school in providing air and space and exercise, proper rest and good food, and thus remedying the serious lack from which so many children of the nursery age in our large towns suffer. Its function in these respects is now well established and widely acknowledged.
