The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.
G. Stanley HallAbundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
G. Stanley HallThis splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
G. Stanley HallNormal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
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