Mental development and education . over, finger twitching, opening and shutting of themouth, moving of eyelids, sucking the thumb, and so on. Thesephenomena indicate how easily the nervous energy of the childfinds its way to his muscles, even though the needs of adaptationat the moment do not call for motor activity. When a young child cannot do anything in a motor way hewill fall asleep. An adult might content himself, or at leastbusy himself, with thinking, but not so with a five- or six- or 144 MENTAl, DKNELOPMKNT AND EDUCATION seven-year-old child. Before the teens is the time for action ;

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Mental development and education . over, finger twitching, opening and shutting of themouth, moving of eyelids, sucking the thumb, and so on. Thesephenomena indicate how easily the nervous energy of the childfinds its way to his muscles, even though the needs of adaptationat the moment do not call for motor activity. When a young child cannot do anything in a motor way hewill fall asleep. An adult might content himself, or at leastbusy himself, with thinking, but not so with a five- or six- or 144 MENTAl, DKNELOPMKNT AND EDUCATION seven-year-old child. Before the teens is the time for action ;after this will be the time for reflection — so nature seems tosay. One rarely detects children of tender age deliberating upona situation; he always finds them active in a motor way withreference to it. By the age of ten — earlier in some cases andlater in others — the tendency to reflect, which means to reviewones experience with situations resembUng that which nowconfronts one and which summons him to action of some sort,.

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