The importance of the nature of the child and propounded that in the educative process, the child must be thought of in relation to the subject-matter. He sought to understand the nature of the children and to build his teaching around the “natural, progressive, and harmonious development of all the powers and capacities of the human being”.

Education should begin with the proper training and direction of the child’s original tendencies and needs.  The skillful teacher is one who will constantly seek to utilize to the fullest extent those tendencies which seem most potent.  He may know many things and be ready to teach them, but he will have little success unless he has knowledge of the mind of his pupils and of what goes on there, which knowledge he can only learn by patient observation. The teacher becomes a learner, for he has to study the minds of the young, their ways of looking at things, their habits, their difficulties, likes and dislikes. He learns how these things are stimulated to exertion, how they are discouraged, and how one mood success another.

By: Dorothy D. Pingol | Teacher I | Capitangan Elementary School