Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South are also below the national average. Because there are fewer teachers' colleges or even colleges, there are fewer teachers. This says nothing of the low wage scale; all wages in the south are low and the teacher's is hardly an exception. The lack of progress in a child is not necessarily due to poor teaching, for the social climate may also contribute to the lack of respect for academic subjects...
Herschell Podge is a gifted child. He has an IQ of slightly more than 120, an enthusiasm for Shakespeare which survived high school senior English, and, if he's lucky, a handful of muddled aspirations--perhaps to go to college, perhaps, someday, to "change the world" in some small...
...might expect more thoughtful answers from Herschell Podge--a gifted child; most of the students questioned had never given much thought to the matters involved--matters, of course, basic to their modern society. But another national magazine survey revealed that the intelligent student merely refrains from comment on the questions...
...most urgent fact of American education today is not our schools' neglect of Herschell Podge, but our society's need for him. The tragedy of the gifted child is no longer individual and personal, it implies the critical tragedy of American society itself, for if Herschell Podge is not available to sustain and improve us, the only ones left to do the job will be the midgets of conformity who applied the stigma to his intelligence...
...Herschell and the gifted children even this is not sufficient. The most obvious answer to their need may be derived from the words of the school board member quoted above. The gifted child must receive special attention. There must be special, advanced level classes in English and social studies, science, and mathematics. "Segregation" on the basis of intellect and ability--contrary to the charge of "undemocratic"--is in the best interests and tradition of a democracy in seeking out its best and training them. Bright students should be classed with bright students for stimulation and competition, instead of subjected...