Knowledge of childhood is the foundation of the scientific education of Maria Montessori‎.‎ It is built on the discovered laws of the development of the body and mind of the child‎.‎Education is an aid to life‎.‎ It is the protection of life‎.‎  It is a help to life according to its own laws of development‎.‎ This book is a primer in its kind‎!‎ Easy to read and still full of the knowledge of Maria Montessori‎!‎