Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-01-23
CHARGE THAT AVERAGE MAN
HAS MENTALITY OF CHILD
BRINGS DENIAL BY DOCTORS

20 learn 10 think enough 90 produce
any original work.
"Thc young man who has finished
high schncl has been subjected and cx.
posed 90 enough education TO help him
a long way In life II he also " able -
think But thinking cannot very well
be- taught
MANY college youth finishes III,
compositions out of old magazines hc
I thinks his instructor hasn't read and
palms OF his theme In class.
81 always tried In the seminars ani
ciasses q graduates 10 give work that
would compel thinking and obserya
ton"
The Importance ~ observation ia alao
stressed by Or. Ice. who declares that.
regardless az college education. a
Young person can observe and draw
conclusions from what he observes.
''rhc average American II intolil.
gent" enya the surgeon. "iic n n wei.
educated Individual. I mean the Amcrl.
can citizen. do not include In my
r.,tcmcnt the man who has come from
mother country. born elsewhere. aud
,crhaps partly raised here. Although
Nc may he very intelligent his oppor
iunltles have been slight In another
country. and he T. not to be chosen Ne
IN example OF an 'uncduca,ed' Ameri
can.
But what Of the child 81 eleven?
Now that we have 81 many prodigica
entering universities AT about that age
what viii they say at being compared
with Intelligent adults?"
View of hoy Super.siudent.
AL. Edward nochic Hardy, super
rtudcnt. mairiculated In Columbia at
tho tender age Of twelve. who chats
pleasantly IN a number Of tongues. and
r.. wiihal no pcdantic dullasd. hut
most entertaining and charming young
man.
Edwards clear. boyish voice didn't
hcaltatc In making his answer but II
was clear that he was busy in that
not frequent mental proccss known rs
thought
"You say that the average man In he
lleyod TO have only the education and
mentality 81 the child of eleven. Well
! think that Is setting |, pretty hlgh.
Army tests showed that the average
man II sovcn or eight instead u eleven
or twelve mentally" Edward protested
"You See" he explained. the most
extensive tests 81 mentality were those
employed In the army mad among
.a.t,.l .i,NIt.u Th.u Tho fxssn tspt.a
compared. Hence the conclusion.
"Thc statement may mean this. how
over. Edward continued. III may have
another Significance. II means maybe
that the average person does not de-
yolop mentally after eleven or seven.
"a Il may h.. stu we can't tell. foi
some II may require many years to get
- the poin, which an intelligent child
has reached at seven, eleven OF
twelve"
DIR. Quackcnios has LETT loonholc o.
escape the prccocious wrath Il Edward
and his fellow nrodigics about Town. lie
Glid.
~ child 81 eleven mIght h. brought
up 20 know MS much az the average
man. Ny father entered Columbia nj
The cgc 81 thirteen and was third In
h. class when be left at the ace Of
eevcntccn.
"Dr. Grant sayr everyone looks half
lead. Docs he ever ride In the sub
way I wonder? II seems to me thai
The scramhllag crowds have altogether
too much energy"
What "Eduration" Really Means.
II am a great believer In the axiom.
y sound mody aud "A sound mind. T"
nys Dr. Lee, And there is only one
iarknoss. that OF ignorance BY cduca.
lion do not mean. necessarily. IA
mlilarity with higher mathematics and
the classics. hut training along naiurla
lines. To know ones work, how 10 do It
ard how Ca care well Tor ones physical
seif. That laft ~ very important
II wouldn't educate everyone alonr
llc same lines. Draft herCes are no