The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-30
CAN'T MAKE EN-.
Brains Not Manufactured by
lEducatiOn-They're Endowed
DR.. Goddard Tells EmpOria Stu
dents OF Development

Emporia- Kan, June 30.-Dr Henry
Herbert Goddard. nationally known
I psychologist and director OF the bu-
reau OF juvenile research IN the Ohio
! state department or public welfare
who viii be here the remainder OF
the week. gave the first OF his series
| OF addresses here today.
| "One writer has said that the world
war was the causing OF the group to
pass from childhood 70 manhood, .
said DR.. Goddard There IS a time
in the lives or all boys and girls when
they take notice OF themselves; they
are conscious OF their being and their
relation 10 other pleople- II Is this
1 period OF life 70 which We have given
our thought. During the world war
We made an effort 20 discover some
thing about ourselves, and we found it
/ We found that the average iuLellt-
gence OF the people OF the United
States was far below that or the aver
age school child OF normal develop
ment-
The day the United States declared
war group OF psychologists was in
session at Harvard university They
combined the days sessions into the
morning and IN the afternoons asked
themselves: What can we do It was
suggested that we might do something
about determining the intelligence OF
the army.
We found in our Investigation that
the men could be roughly divided into
two groups-one. men OF good ma
terial. and the other, composed OF men
that We're not 70 be depended upon
we found that the men could be
divided into seven groups OF mental
intelligence This grouping was made
from an average of 100000 men
taken from every state in the Union
and what can be said OF the United
States can be said OF every state, city.
or school in the country, with, OF
course. slight variations due TO the
size OF the group
The time was when we thought all
children to be alike mentally II they
didn't advance in later years We said
they didn't have the opportunity OF
someone else. or that IL was the fault
OF the teachers or method Of instruc-
ton. The fault was not with these
but with the natural endowment given
to the child at birth Education
doesn't make brains or Intelligence It
tends to develop what IS given TO a
person by inheritance.
We have in this country at the
present time 1 per cent OF the people
that are feeble minded, but we don't
know what i feeble minded person is
When we consider the level of in
telligence found among the army fig
ures the facts are rather startling
Ten per cent OF all drafted men could
not be trained for soldiers They
would not make good cannon fodder.
Their mentality was that of ten years
and less"
IN the United States we found that
per cent OF all the people were in
mentality u years OF age or less
Twenty-Five per cent OF all the people
are mentally Il or Is years OF age.
But those figures are not so startling
as they might appear. Age doesn't
mean intelligence Most people are
never any stronger after they are 20
years old. and IL IS the same mentally.
The maximum intelligence IS reached
Al On TTa ability IN
when facts are present Is no better in
Il man OF % 10 80 than in one OF 20.
Men DO not become more intelligent;
they become more educated"