The Child under Eight

This is a children education learning book. The book is The Child Under Eight. We have made this book between us, but we have not collaborated. We know that we agree in all essentials though our experience has differed. We both desire to see the best conditions for development provided for all children irrespective of class. We both look forward to the time when the conditions of the Public Elementary School from the Nursery School up will be such in point of numbers in freedom from pressure in situation of building in space both within and without and in beauty of surroundings that parents of any class will gladly let their children attend it. There has always been making in the Kindergarten since to Froebel the impulse to create was a characteristic of self-conscious humanity. Teachers who want real help in the art training of children should read the excellent papers by Miss Findlay in School and Life where we are told that we must rescue the term design from the limited uses to which it is often condemned in the drawing class viz.