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Excerpt from The Boys and Girls, of Garden City The purpose of infancy and childhood is to prepare, adapt, and educate for efficiency in adult life, and, under present conditions, this means chiefly social efficiency. The progress of science and discovery, too, is so rapid that the scientific education of even thirty years ago is totally inadequate to meet present social needs. What will these needs be thirty years hence, when our boys and girls are in the midst of their generations struggle for social progress? We can only judge the future by the past, but one thing is certain: progress in science is likely to be increasingly rapid, and in order to keep social life abreast of its discoveries we must instill into the young mind the spirit and method of the alert and active scientist. The true function of youth, with its ability and avidity to learn, ought to be to keep the community life continuously abreast of discovery. This is the problem of elementary-science instruction. With the young of animals, play is the method of education which prepares for the strenuous activities of adult life. Hence it is but natural that we find the play instinct the most dominant, universal, and wholesome impulse of child life. Instead of repressing the play instinct, as too much of our school life in the past has attempted to do, why not guide and develop this strong current of child life, and make it a real preparation for future social efficiency? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.