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Overnight Pupils Segregated After
Tests and Their Study Courses Ex-
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displayed such a gift in this course
as to induce teacher from the Music
School Settlement to give her special
piano lessons gratis.
Last year the rudiments OF verse
writing were taught, and a remarkable
young poetess at once came to the
fore. This fall an expert will hold a
class especially TO instruct the chill
dren in the capture of the elusive
poetic muse.
They begin to read the newspapers
at the age Of or 9, which is a little
earlier than the rest of us do. Their
| literary peregrinations are extensive,
and when undirected will range from
the lightest summer fiction to the pro-
foundest classics And already. as
they come so frequently to the
libraries. they have been taught lust
! how to use the elaborate indexes and
cross references, a system which still
puzzles good many adults.
| About the bright boy there is a
popular idea that while he may excel
i in book learning, manual labor is the
prerogative of the stolid dullard. Now
the Terman children puncture this
theory, for both girls and boys are re-
markable in shop work, where they
make little cabinets, chairs and air.
planes as neatly and with as much
despatch as they handle the multiplied
ton table.
| That the precocious child is not a
specialist, says Miss Irwin, is what ex-
perience with Terman classes tends 10
I hn'g rlral Ia fx, line
he will, when given a chance to de-
velop in other ways, show a general
superiority. There's the case of six
year old Sammy.
Mathematical Marvel.
Sammy is the East Sides mathe-
NAUTICAL marvel. Before he had
learned to read numbers this child
could make accurate and lightning
like replies to questions like this:
my son, say how much is it?" Sammy
498.372 tigers and maybe Is monkeys,
my son say how much is it?" Sammy
would not only give the sum, but could
Immediately afterward go back, de-
taching from this miscellaneous group,
one after the other of the geological
species.
| Just to see what he was like, Miss
Irwin looked up Sammy and gave him
the Terman test. When she found
that he had a high I. @. she brought
him to Public School 81 to be placed
in a Terman class. Here they've
stopped asking him the trick arith-
metical questions. Every effort is
made to stimulate the rest Of his
bright little mind, and so far Sammy
is doing very well In every depart
ment
| The general capacity has been dis
! covered in a young artist, who wins
the Wanamaker drawing prize year
after year. He has a high I. O. and
is one OF the best all-around scholars.
All the Terman children are devoted
to sports. which is again contrary to
the prevailing notion of the bright
boy. Most OF them prefer playing out
doors to studying within, and Lyman
OF the brilliant Shakespearean Vo-
cabulary is one Of the schools star
athletes.
There can be no more erroneous
belief than that gifted children are al
ways one sided and queer" says Miss
| Irwin. "If child is unusually clever
we expect him to be physically under
developed or morally eccentric. We
cannot believe that nature would en-
dow a child with all-around superb
GRITTY We cultivate tradition that
talented people have no common
sense and that genius Is not red
blooded.
| Coordinate Mind and Body.
"As matter OF fact. the psycholo-
gists find that children possessing the
highest grade of intelligence tend ia
be well developed in body as well as
in mind. Overweight and oversize are
common among them.
"The physical examination Of groups
Of such children has shown them to
be peculiarly free from physical def
ciences, Just as the feeble-minded are
known to be weighed down by an ag-
y glomeration of physical defects"