Excerpt from A Study of Fairy Tales One of the problems of present-day education is to secure for the entire school system, from the kinder garten to the university, a curriculum which shall have a proved and permanent value. In this curricu lum literature has established itself as a subject of unquestioned worth. But children's literature, as that distinct portion of the subject literature written especially for children or especially suited to them, is only beginning to take shape and form. It seems necessary at this time to work upon the content of children's literature to see what is worthy of a per manent place in the child's English, and to dwell upon its possibilities. A consideration of this subject has convinced me of three points: (1) that literature in the kindergarten and elementary school should be taught as a distinct subject, accessory neither to read ing nor to any other subject of the curriculum, though intimately related to them; (2) that it takes training in the subject to teach literature to little children; (8) that the field of children's literature is largely un tilled, inviting laborers, embracing literature which should be selected from past ages down to the present. 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.