The human brain and the human body are very complicated, and so is human education. This book presents a childhood educational theory with a system of principles of a learner’s conditions, environment, and educational processes.

The system recognizes that a child’s intelligence, emotions, and social interactions continue to develop in tandem with his growth and bio-physical conditions. This is a system with dynamic principles, such as the time factor principle, the pursuance of betterment principle, and the latency in a person’s change of physical and mental state principle. These principles may vary with time and should be applied in tandem with the changes in the learner’s condition as well as his learning environment.

The system attends to the negative impacts and other side effects of an educational process. These unwanted side effects may accumulate and cause potential difficulties and problems in the future. 

Education impacts a child throughout his life. The system presents principles, such as maintenance stage principle and conflict resolution principle, which may be consistently applied throughout children’s lives. 

More than one principle in the system may be applied to a learner’s situation. An effective guidance may be created by applying a combination of these principles.

The principles are divided into three groups: learner’s state (functions and conditions), learner’s interactions with environment, and introducing a learner to the world. These principles are interdependent. Hopefully the readers may internalize and combine them into a complete educational theory.

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Donald W. Sung