Mind and heredity / by Vernon L. Kellogg.

  • Vernon Lyman Kellogg
Date:
1923
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Mind and heredity / by Vernon L. Kellogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    98/136 (page 76)
    76 MIND AND HEREDITY er work and impatiently marking time as the instructors held them back while they slowly nursed the mentally average and in¬ ferior along to semester's end after semes¬ ter's end. And the testers have seen their predictions come true. If the intelligence testers can do this, what a waste of time and energy and money our colleges are tolerating in their efforts to find out during a semester or year or more what students cannot keep up with even the moderate—to be restrained in expres¬ sion—mental achievement necessary to making grades in the college courses. The fact, and it is a fact, that the American uni- veristy—curious hybrid of gymnasium or lycée and real university—is now giving more attention and effort to the less capa¬ ble, the uninterested and the non-attaining students than to the more capable, the inter¬ ested and the attaining students, is a men¬ ace to the highest usefulness of the institu¬ tion if it is to exercise effectively its much- needed true university function, which is the development of thinkers and leaders for the country. We may be all equal in our right to receive service from the state, but we are not all equal in our capacity to give service back to it. The state, which is sim¬ ply all of us, needs the benefit of the best