This is a valuable study of a group of superior children, with an analysis of their physical, mental and educational development, and their practical interests. They were found, on the whole, to show all-round superiority, to come from superior families, and to be capable of richer educational experiences than the usual school curriculum affords.
-The Journal of Delinquency, Vol. 7 From the EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION. It is becoming a commonplace to say that our school system fails to detect and to furnish adequate training for the capable child. A certain doctrine, fortifying itself with the name of democracy, shrinks from the fundamental fact of individual differences and deprecates in the name of equality anything but a uniform treatment of school children. This doctrine is false and is based upon a faulty conception of democracy. The evidence that men are not born equal is conclusive. If, then, the fact of differences-many, varied, and wide-is accepted (as indeed it must be by anyone who approaches the facts with an open mind) then the corrolary that training should be different must also be accepted. Nor does this acceptance of differentiated training relate solely or mainly to gifted children. "The world's best brains fully trained" is only a partial program which should be replaced by the wider program "everybody's brains fully trained."