Abstract
The Twentieth Century has been well termed the Century of the Child, for apparently during the past three decades no phase of the study of child life in all its aspects, physical, mental, moral, and cultural, has been neglected. The physical needs of this small being have inspired to endless research specialists in many fields. His intellectual guidance has become the concern of a great host of educational experts. His emotional adjustments have been studied by the sociologist, the psychologist, and the psychiatrist. In addition, his social welfare and economic training have become matters of extensive legislation, national, state, and local. From this intensive study of the child there has resulted the recognition of the fact that the stability and prosperity of the world depend mainly upon the physical and the intellectual, the moral and the social well being of the child. From this intensive study of the child there has come also an ever-growing realization that the child is both society’s greatest asset and its most challenging responsibility. The essential aim of this intensive study has been to determine the nature and needs of the child as well as his possibilities and his problems, for the purpose of achieving the solution of the most fundamental of all human problems, namely, the betterment of the human race.