Miss Churchill is fully conversant with the works of Piaget, Cuisenaire, Cassirer and other leading thinkers in educational philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. She has synthesized their concepts with her own experience and research at Leeds University.

Eileen Churchill is a psychologist and a teacher. From 1933 to 1945 she was teaching in junior and grammar schools and since then she has been concerned with the training of infant-school teachers. She is now a lecturer at the Leicester University Institute of Education. Her book is based on the insight she gained through her experience as a teacher and as a research student in Leeds University Department of Psychology.