[28] Principles of Heredity, ibid. p. 242.
[29] Cf. [next chapter].
[30] Suggestions for the Consideration of Teachers (English Board of Education), chapter on Physical Education.
[31] Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, p. 292.
[32] Ibid. p. 329.
CHAPTER X
THE AIM OF THE INFANT SCHOOL
It is needless to point out that the method of educating the infant mind is the method of all education—viz., the regulation of the process by which experiences are acquired and organised so as to render the performance of future action more efficient. This, as we shall see later, is the fundamental truth at the foundation of the Kindergarten method of Froebel, and it must guide and control our conduct not only during the earlier stages but throughout the whole process of education.