Children from seed to saplings / by Martha May Reynolds.

  • Reynolds, Martha May, 1893-1978.
Date:
1939
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Children from seed to saplings / by Martha May Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $s (CISUULAD) SPIPiCADys% The term “child study” means just what it says—the study of children. It is broader than child psychology, child hygiene, or education; it includes these and many more. Child study centers attention on the whole child as he is—an integrated human being. It regards him not as a bundle of thoughts, feelings, and actions loosely tied together and easily separated but as an intricate organism with something of all three in his every waking moment. Studying children doesn’t mean classifying and pigeon- holing them; it means looking at them scientifically and accumulating enough facts to help us understand why they are as they are and what should be done about it. AIM OF THE PRESENT VOLUME This book has grown out of ten years of experience in guiding students in their study of children. In writing it, the author is trying to pass on to others the philosophy, plans, and procedures that have evolved during the trial and error period. To this end, the book is written in an informal style, in an attempt to capture the intimate, teacher-student relation fostered in the child study classes at Vassar College. It is not a textbook or a manual or yet a reference book. It is a combination of all three, just as real teaching should be. It says to the student: “Let us look at children together and then turn to the authorities to determine the significance of what we see. Let us figure out what the adult’s responsibility is with respect to this behavior, and then let us honestly find out how each one of us feels. about it and why.” These four suggestions