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The Sensitive Periods

  The development and growth of human being proceeds not incidentally but according to certain rules commanded by nature. The child has a great sensibility and since his birth, he starts absorbing his environment through this vehicle. But, this absorbance does not happen as a whole at one time; the information is a confusing mass at first, then it loosens in time and becomes clear in the end. This process arises one by one and in a predetermined schedule. While he focuses on contrasting black-white colored objects in a period of time, he directs his attention to bright colors in another time. This focus of attention always changes both the issue to learn and the time to work. This is called as sensitive period. “Thus what we have called "incarnation"  and the sensitive   periods   might   be  compared   to  a spy-hole opening on the inner processes of mind in the making, that we see, as it were internal organs at work, de...