The Secret of childhood

Dr. Montessori was convinced, from a

lifetime of scientific observation, that in the

child there are laws of growth in character

and disposition as marked as those in its

physical life; that adults generaly faill to

appreciate these laws and force their own

ideas on it. This results in oppression of the

child's deepest drives and its mind is

thrown into confusion, and revolts through

manifestations of naughtiness, hysterical

crying and sulking. A childhood so full of
repression develops into an adulthood full

of complexes. Dr. Montessori's main theme

in this book is, in effect, "Find the secret of

childhood, and the whole disposition of the

child changes. It trulý becomes "Father of

Man" and achieves a superior, saner

psychological development."

Dr. Montessori's revojutionary method of

education was begun long ago; and to-day

institutions with her method exist in all

parts of the world. This book reaches out to

a yet wider horizon-in fact to all those
who care for the young, and for man in the

course of self-construction