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Show FATE OF THE PRECOCIOUS. 1 My friend, the ex-headmaster, had 1 a daughter who at the age of 2 years I was able to repeat the letters of the I alphabet correctly. Her father was a j little disturbed at this learning and I he resolved to make an inquiry among 3 the pupils of his own .arce elomen- tary school in his city with a view of I ascertaining whether or not it was a 1 good thing for a child to begin to re- I eclve education at an early age. For I the purpose o his investigation he selected se-lected a class known as Standard Five, i i numbering sixty boys, whose ages averaged 12 years. Without informing ! the teacher in charge of the class of g "his purpose, ho asked him to make a list of the pupils, dividing them into sections under the titles: Bright, Fair- 1 ly Brght, Moderate, Rather Dull, Dull, jj When this list was compiled, the in- 1 investigator then added to It the date n on which each boy was first admitted H to school. This entailed n good deal 1 of work, as some of the children had I not begun their school llfo at the j school in which they were being M taught In Standard Five; but event- $ ually the school history of each of the 1 isixty pupils was traced by interrogat- I ung parents and examining the admis- I sion registers of other Hchools. 9" I When the list was completed it was Jpund that almost all tho children who 1 had been admitted to school at the age jj oi 3 years were in the Dull class, those P who were not in that class were in a ' tile Rather Dull division. None of them i was in any of the other classes. With R . feW exceptions the progression waB & maintained throughout There was not E a dingle Bright child who had been ad- I milted to school under tho age of 5 I years, and only one child of that age m i was in this highest class, the others B being children who had been admitted f to school at the age of six or seven. N t - Lobdon Daily Mail. I J |
