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...above on IQ tests. In poor neighborhoods, only 6% do so. The reason is partly that IQ tests, though aimed at measuring intelligence rather than learning, necessarily reflect "normal" exposure to books, conversation and even material gadgets. Without such riches, the bright slum kid seems to get dumber as he grows older. Schools treat him accordingly. With a dwindling sense of worth, he accepts the verdict and quits school...
...major addresses, Erich Fromm aired the best phrases of his "Socialist Manifesto." Viewing the "whole structure of modern man," Fromm, well-known psychoanalyst and prolific writer, said that "with all our education, people seem to be getting dumber than ever," drawing the best applause of the evening. We have machines that act like men, he said, and men who worship machines...
...like such mammals as the dog and the monkey, which have brains built on the same plan as humans, even though they are much dumber. The octopus is not a mammal, or even a vertebrate. It is a mollusk, a sort of sophisticated clam. Its brain evolved independently-and the octopus in many ways is an independent thinker. Last week University of Cambridge Zoologist Martin J. Wells was preparing to publish a fascinating study on a far-out subject: the octopus and its intellect...
Giant American silkworms may not be any dumber than their Japanese colleagues, but current researches in the University biology laboratories reveal that they aren't very smart...
...Delaware River bulkheads between tides. An early aviator (1912), he flew for the Navy in World War I. At 26 he joined General Motors' export division as a trainee, was made head of the division in a year. His reason: "The guys who were teaching me were even dumber than I was." He soon switched to a top post at Wilson Welder & Metals Co., Inc., where he pioneered in the infant electric welding system. In early New Deal days, Bransome headed the rubber division of NRA. Says he: "I worked under old 'Ironpants' Johnson. I didn...