ABSTRACT
The facts of growth with which this study is concerned are those which are most affected by the children's own activities in their own environment,— their responses to the stimuli offered them. The least one can do for the children in a school is to give them adequate food and safeguard them from infectious disease. In the course of time it will be profitable to follow the histories of our babies and of children in other similar experiments, through elementary and high school. These—it seems to me—are the features that make nursery schools important in education and that need to have more thought and more experimental observation brought to bear upon them. One of the problems of nursery school planning that needs further consideration is that of age grouping. These problems in personality must be regarded from the standpoint of their biological significance. Fear or temper, when it constitutes a deviation from the normal, hinders the development of the individual.
