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Show EASY TO MISJUDGE CHILDREN Youngsters Called "Stupid" in Early Years Have Later Been Found Possessed of Genius. Let me remind you of the sufferings of the "stupid" child. Real stupidity is a great affliction, but one which rarely receives the sympathy it stands so much in need of. Now, many children chil-dren who are thought stupid are not stupid at all. They may have certain defects of a physical nature which can be remedied, or iheir schooling and education ed-ucation in general is of a kind that, is not adapted to their special needs If Juggling with figures, erroneously called arithmetic, is made a test of intelligence, in-telligence, then the constructive or artistic ar-tistic genius of child may remain undiscovered un-discovered : and If parents and teachers teach-ers judge those -children to be bright who can, by so-called parsing, arrange the dead hones of the language in artificial ar-tificial order, or who shine out front the others by brilliant recitations and unchihllike discussions of adult problems prob-lems at graduation exercises, then the dreamer, the philosopher and the poet will pass for dunces. If is only too true that many of our greatest minds have been considered absolute failures during their school career, not to say in the homes of their childhood. How many of them had to assert their native excellency against the most violent resistance of those who were too blind to perceive the divine di-vine spark in their children's souls? Dr. Maximilian T. E. Groszemann in June Humanitarian. |