Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and DevelopmentHollingworth, Leta Stetter
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Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development
Hollingworth, Leta Stetter
Gifted children; Stanford-Binet Test
I will cite another conversation, this time with a nine-year-old,
of IQ 183.
What seems to be the _main_ trouble with you at school?
The teacher can't pronounce.
Can't pronounce _what_?
Oh, lots of things. The teacher said "Magdalen College"--at
Oxford, you know. I said, "In England they call it Môdlin
College." The teacher wrote a note home to say I am rude and
disorderly. She does not like me.
Just one more conversation, this time with an eight-year-old,
of IQ 178, Sent as a school problem:
What is your _main_ trouble at school?
My really main trouble is _not_ at school.
Where is it, then?
It is the _librarian_.
How is _that_?
Well, for instance, I go to the library to look for my books
on mechanics. I am making a new way for engines to go into
reverse gear. The librarian says, "Here, where are you going?
You belong in the juvenile department." So I have to go where
the children are all _supposed_ to go. But I don't stay there
long, because they don't have any real books there. Say, do you
think you could get me a card to the other department?
This subject is inexhaustible, but we must go on to speak of
the psychological isolation of these children when they drift
unrecognized. The majority of children above 160 IQ play little
with other children because the difficulties of social contact
are almost insurmountable. Unless special facilities can be
provided, these children tend to become isolates, a condition
not conducive to leadership, except perhaps of a few rare sorts,
later in life. Such children are ordinarily friendly and gregarious
by nature, but their efforts at forming friendship tend to be
defeated by the scarcity of like-minded contemporaries. The
imaginary playmate as a solution of the problem of loneliness
is fairly frequent, but far inferior to the real playmate, could
one be found. Shaw makes Saint Joan say, "I was always alone."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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