Children and Their Books

Project Gutenberg's Children and Their Books, by James Hosmer Penniman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Children and Their Books Author: James Hosmer Penniman Release Date: September 15, 2007 [EBook #22604] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILDREN AND THEIR BOOKS *** Produced by Suzanne Lybarger and the booksmiths at http://www.eBookForge.net [1] CHILDREN AND THEIR BOOKS BY JAMES HOSMER PENNIMAN, LITT. D. SYRACUSE, N. Y. C. W. BARDEEN, PUBLISHER [2]Copyright, 1921, by C. W. Bardeen [3]CHILDREN AND THEIR BOOKS The most vital educational problem will always be how to make the best use of the child's earlier years, not only for the reason that in them many receive their entire school training, but also because, while the power of the child to learn increases with age, his susceptibility to formative influences diminishes, and so rapid is the working of this law that President Eliot thinks that "the temperament, physical constitution, mental aptitudes, and moral quality of a boy are all well determined by the time he is 18 years old." Great waste of the child's time and mental energy in the precious early years [4]is caused by disregard of the way in which his mind unfolds.