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Anna Freud's very famous little book, “Introduction to Psycho-analysis for Teachers: Four Lectures,” is composed of four lectures that she presented to the teachers who worked with 6-14 year old children in Vienna in the late 1920s. The titles of these four lectures are “Infantile Amnesia and the Oedipus Complex”; “The Infantile Instinct-Life”; “The Latency Period”; and “The Relation between Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy”. These lectures outline very clearly the basic ideas of psychoanalysis and their implications for the understanding, care, and education of young children. The fourth lecture in this book, specifically elaborates how the insights of psychoanalytic theory could be useful for those who are involved in the education of children. Anna Freud declares in this lecture that psychoanalysis can do three things for pedagogy: it can offer a criticism of existing educational methods; it extends and sharpens the teacher's knowledge and understanding of the complex relationships between the child and the educator; and finally, as a method of practical treatment in the analysis of children, it focuses on repairing the injuries which are inflicted upon the child during the process of education. Towards the end of her article, she says “I hold that we are right in demanding that the teacher or educator should have learnt to know and to control his own conflicts before he begins his educational work. If this is not so, the pupils merely serve as more or less suitable material on which to abreact his own unconscious and unresolved difficulties.”