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Since democratic values are being threatened, it is the teacher's role to make these values come alive for children by working day by day in the classroom.

This was a talk given to Connecticut teachers in the fall of 1959. The Association for Childhood Education International and many states are working to establish nursery schools as well as kindergartens as children's first school experience.

One of the greatest pressures—and perhaps the most dangerous—is the demand to start formal instruction early. Twentieth-century research supports the importance of building readiness for learning, and the author cites readiness for reading.

We are concerned with the fundamental values of democracy and how they are best developed. Here is an exciting article that tells of the task in the average classroom when we realize each child is a custom job.