Excerpt from The Primary Worker and Work Those are important years of life which lie between the door of the kindergarten, as it swings outward, and the great portal which opens before the child at the reading age and bids him enter the sunny fields of story and verse and gather for himself at will. In these years when the child is six, seven, and eight years old, he is said to be in the primary period. It is here that elements of personality begin to manifest themselves and the foundations of individual character are laid. Here innate and inherited tendencies are seen, motive powers which lie behind the child's thought and action, requiring in some cases development, in others inhibition, but always to be reckoned with. In these years the child grows rapidly. New interests spring up, others that were absorbing a few months ago are cast aside. Each year of the developing life is a study in itself, and each individual child differs in many ways from any other of his group. It is said that it is impossible to teach a child whom one does not understand, and yet in our church schools it often happens that a young girl with no experience in dealing with children, and with no special preparation for teaching, is asked to take a class in the Primary Department. 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.