This is a long but fascinating look at how we spend our adolescent years has an unusually strong effect on whom we become.
“If you’re interested in making sure kids learn a lot in school, yes, intervening in early childhood is the time to do it,” says Laurence Steinberg, a developmental psychologist at Temple University and perhaps the country’s foremost researcher on adolescence. “But if you’re interested in how people become who they are, so much is going on in the adolescent years.”
via Why You Never Truly Leave High School — New York Magazine.