TEE NORMAL CHILD 



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School Standing Curves. Girls. 



done. This would require that tall healthy children of accelerated 

 physiological age be encouraged to proceed through school as rapidly 

 as possible within the limits of thoroughness, and that the small light 

 children of retarded physiological development be kept below or in the 

 normal grade doing supplementary work, since these short light pupils 

 are immature in mental development, although in many instances pre- 

 cocious in brightness. It also follows from the study that rapid healthy 

 growth favors good mental development, and therefore the healthy grow- 

 ing child should have plenty of physical and mental exercise. 



