ABSTRACT
The degree of adjustment that they show to their classroom situations in their first years at school colours their life for a good few years. The enforcing of discipline occurs as to ways of carrying out classwork as well as in questions of social behaviour. The children do this to each other outside class as well, using somewhat different criteria most of the time. It would seem very important to the author then for each child to have the opportunity to know himself/herself in a wide variety of relationships, to feel free to come to know as many people as are alive to him/her that he/she wants to know. A depressed – desperate continuum seems to have potential for disturbing the range of children that are seen as poorly adjusted and for highlighting the differences between them in their classroom behaviour and experience.
