Excerpt from The Education of Childhood
That part of the period of adolescence which lies between the ages of five or six, and thirteen or fourteen years of age, and which we shall call "childhood" for the purposes of this article, is the period of greatest natural nerve response to sensor stimuli from environment, of greatest motor response to sensor re-actions, and of the greatest cerebral plasticity - the period in which mind-growth is most certain and vigorous. It is the period in which the mind is forming and is most active. It is the period in which perception or ideation is most intense and its results most permanent. The sense-percepts, the motor-impulses, formed in this period, lie at the basis of all subsequent mental life and development. This period we may call childhood, and the child is, in an important sense, more intellectual than the man, except along the lines in which man has had special training and experience.
In manhood the active powers, in both their physical (or physiological) and psychological aspects, predominate, from the necessity of the life struggle.
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