ABSTRACT
The Laboratory School was both a department of the University and a place where parents sent children to be educated. As such it required conditions which would insure freedom for investigation on the one hand, and normal development for child life on the other. This meant the planning of a curriculum which was not static in character, but one which ministered constantly to the changing needs and interests of the growing child's experience. Educative schooling must furnish a social and intellectual as well as a physical environment, in which the child may become increasingly familiar with all kinds of relationships and be trained to consider them so far as is necessary in his individual and experimental activities. Extracts from the stenographic notes of the address serve to give a bird's-eye view of the way in which the studies and activities of its curriculum were related or grew out of the daily experience of the children.
