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Excerpt from Notes on the Problems of Extreme Individual Differences in Children of the Public Schools: A Report to the Superintendent of Public Schools Concerning a Preliminary Study of the Problems of Exceptional Children and of Certain Related Questions; An Inquiry Begun Through the Cooperation of Teachers, Principals, Physicians, Social Workers, Psychol
The concept, the average child, is indispensable, but 233mm every competent study of groups of children, at any age say, ten or twelve years - has proved that no one child is like another. Studies of weight, height, grip, of sense or gans, of mental functions, have revealed coincidences here and there but in every kind of valid test, physical or men tal, we have found with the age-averages also individual variations within each group. One of the most important tasks of educational science, when we view education as a process of adjustment of environment, and the individual 1n physical, mental, and social aspects, may be resolved, in the last analysis, into that of describing and explaining the na ture, significance and treatment of individual differences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
