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CHAPTER III The Child's Heritage Factors in the Development of the Child We cannot discover the nature of a child until we have studied his actions under various conditions, i.e. his actions will vary according to his environment. We do not know the nature of any object until we see what it will do under certain circumstances, e.g. a grain of corn has the power of producing other grains of corn, but it cannot actually do so until it is brought into a certain environment; that is, placed in the soil and subjected to heat and moisture. In a similar way the child has certain powers, but they cannot become actual until it is placed in certain surroundings. Innate powers in a child will lie dormant unless awakened and stimulated to activity by environment. So there are two factors in the child's development—the inner and the outer : heredity and environment. All inner tendencies remain undeveloped, or at most develop slowly, without the action of favourable outer influences. Now the study of the inner and outer factors in humandevelopment, and the inquiry as to how the inner may be modified by the outer, is one of the problems of child study. Put briefly, we must discover the natural order of mental development and the modifying effects of various conditions at different stages of life. We have to ask what inner tendencies are prominent at each age, and how these tendencies are developed and modified by outer influences. Child study, therefore, is concerned with all the characteristics ofchildhood, and with the general laws of development. That is, the relation of environment to character. The art of the successful management of children depends consciously or unconsciously upon child study. We now come to consider the child's heritage ; what it comes into the world with. ...
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CHAPTER III The Child's Heritage Factors in the Development of the Child We cannot discover the nature of a child until we have studied his actions under various conditions, i.e. his actions will vary according to his environment. We do not know the nature of any object until we see what it will do under certain circumstances, e.g. a grain of corn has the power of producing other grains of corn, but it cannot actually do so until it is brought into a certain environment; that is, placed in the soil and subjected to heat and moisture. In a similar way the child has certain powers, but they cannot become actual until it is placed in certain surroundings. Innate powers in a child will lie dormant unless awakened and stimulated to activity by environment. So there are two factors in the child's development—the inner and the outer : heredity and environment. All inner tendencies remain undeveloped, or at most develop slowly, without the action of favourable outer influences. Now the study of the inner and outer factors in humandevelopment, and the inquiry as to how the inner may be modified by the outer, is one of the problems of child study. Put briefly, we must discover the natural order of mental development and the modifying effects of various conditions at different stages of life. We have to ask what inner tendencies are prominent at each age, and how these tendencies are developed and modified by outer influences. Child study, therefore, is concerned with all the characteristics of childhood, and with the general laws of development. That is, the relation of environment to character. The art of the successful management of children depends consciously or unconsciouslyupon child study. We now come to consider the child's heritage ; what it comes into the world with. ...
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This is an OCR edition with typos.
Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III The Child's Heritage Factors in the Development of the Child We cannot discover the nature of a child until we have studied his actions under various conditions, i.e. his actions will vary according to his environment....