The first problem of education is to furnish the child with an environment which will permit him to develop the functions that nature has given to him. This is not an indifferent question. It is not a question of merely pleasing the child, of allowing him to do as he likes. It is a question of co-operation with a command of nature, with one of her laws which decrees that development should take place by means of experiences upon the environment. With his first step the child enters a higher level of experiences.
