Learning and Teaching in the Infants' School

ment will have to help her in organising the childrens' school life, the detailed results of Miss Hume's wide observation and experience in pioneer Infants' Schools. The book shows the possibility of equipping children, by the end of their first term in the Infants' Department, with the desire to learn (a point of view which is salutary when we still see teachers who consider the object of the Infant School is to teach certain things, of which the 3 R's are the most important, as a preliminary to passing into the Junior School), and the book works through, in some detail, certain centres of interest and shows the close links between creative play, common activities in