Show real span af 0 f human education extends from the cradle to the grave by ANNA BELLE JOHNSTON nursery school E expert T IS too often a assumed ned that education begins nt at the school age of I 1 ST six years emotional personality and habitual slants begin ot at birth so should education the child may be said to graduate into the th schools children do not go untrained untra until six years of age they are be ing trained somehow somewhere every hour of their lives it is better to know how and tind where as in the nursery schools the responsibility may rest entirely with the parents but many of them do not feel they tire are adequately trained or have sufficient time or proper facilities no thoughtful person fails to recognize the of the job of being a parent when families become convinced of the desirability of holidays for mothers away from their children a great step in correcting morbid emotional attitudes will have been taken this should mean a daily as well ns as an annual period of freedom in the former it is the nursery school that is i providing the desired separation the infant is in the nursery school three hours each day this gives the mother an opportunity to view her own work and a chance for recreation while the child is tho the scientific tift attention it should have during these early years year the bild is placed in a social group of 15 children of its own nac with two trained teachers acting as their guides the nursery school does not assume nil all the responsibility tile the mother spends one morning I 1 a month in the school observing methods method followed in handling her child after such observations the mother has a conference with the director direct ot and discue aes every phase of her childs development thus setting up tip a link between home and school nursery schools aim to provide a laboratory in which the student may learn child care with real children as ag the subjects of their study too many girls undertake ilia th responsibilities of home and children without adequate preparation public schools now are recognizing a response i ability in this connection and in increasing numbers are including train ing in motherhood |