| Show MENTAL overpressure curious experiments showing the children attha best school AB the school season approaches the subject of mental overpressure becomes important not only for parental i bat for invest bation the capacity of the child the number and nature of the studies and especially tha length of the features which not to be oyer looked or be left in the direction of educators that much can be gained by experimental study ef overpressure is shown by a paper read by dr bur enstein ena tein of the congress of Hy gilene London in upon the working carve of an hoar the writer had for hia object the study of the mental power of children and he arranged his esperi menta with a view to demonstrating the fluctuations of brain ya children during one hours occupation with a familiar subject addition and multiplication adms were given to f girla of an average ape of 11 years and 11 years and 10 mouths and two clastal at doys 01 the average aga of 12 years and 2 months and 1 month after tar mutes work the bums were taken at from the children after a pause of ten minutes the nork was resumed resu mhd the alternation continuing for an hour eo that there was three periods of work the were interesting during the whole the hildren worked out figures makine mistakes it ws found that the number of mistakes increased in the different periods and that during the third period the quality of word was at the lowest the general result showed according to the investigator that children of ages stated become fatigued in three quarters of an hour that the organic material is gradually ethic atad that the power ol 01 work gradually dinishes dini shea to a certain point durina the third quarter f the hour returning with renewed force at the fourth quarter the recommendation wag made that no school leleon should last longer than three quarters of an hour and should be followed by a quarter cf an hours rubt such a study is of especial benefit at tho beginning of the school 1 year children ore often reprimanded for inattention when they ara over fatigued aland are spurred for ward when their minds need rest mental overpressure is tha usual boston journal |
