Excerpt from The Contents of Children's Minds on Entering School Individuality of Children as Influenced by Surround ings - In October, 1869, the Berlin Pedagogical Verein is sued a circular inviting teachers to investigate the indi viduality of children on entering the city schools so far as it was represented by ideas of their environment. Individuality in children, it was said, differed in Berlin not only from that of children in smaller cities or in the country, but surroundings caused marked differences in culture-capacity in different wards. Although concepts from the environment were only one important cause of diversity of individuality, this cause once determined, inferences could be drawn to other causes. 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.