The child, his nature and nurture / by W.B. Drummond.

  • Drummond, W. B. (William Blackley), 1868-1937.
Date:
1901
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Credit: The child, his nature and nurture / by W.B. Drummond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a little child can he hope to sit down with the child in his kingdom, and once more to see and hear and understand as a child. : In these words as a child we find the key to the practical educational value of child study. We are learning that the child does not see as we see, and therefore does not quite see what we see, and that therefore to at least that extent words do not mean to him, even when they are used by him and not by us, exactly what they mean to us. A fuller know- ledge of the child’s normal mode of mental and moral growth, and the way in which he reacts to the different materials of instruction, must make great changes in our methods of school training. Instruction must give place to education. Instead of giving the child knowledge we must teach him to seek after wisdom. 7. have been followed in the direct study of children fall naturally into two classes which we may call the Individual and the Collective Methods. occurred, and we now possess a considerable number of who have contributed to this field of child study may be mentioned Tiedemann, Sigismund, Darwin, Preyer, Sully, and Pollock. M. Perez’s delightful “First Three Years of has not followed the biographical method, but has recorded the evolution of the different faculties in a number of his young friends. More recently Miss Shinn has published a very full record of the development of her niece, and Mrs_ Winfield S. Hall has given us a very thorough study of the first five hundred days in the life of her son. Although such records cannot be taken as typical on | account of the great individual differences which may exist | even between children in the same family, yet there is often |