Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both, he can soon fit in the missing frets, play the second fiddle. Children who can read are encouraged to act each sentence out in dumb show. The system tries to make all of a pupil's acts coordinate with all his senses. Through ideological gymnastics, an intellect is developed by the exercise of attention, comparison, judgment...
...this method, says Dr. Holt, "we can guarantee the father to turn out a boy (and in a process that is altogether delightful to him) who will come within 95 per cent of what that particular boy's intellect is capable of achieving...
...Eugenics Research Association was founded in 1913. Working in conjunction with the eugenics record office of the Carnegie Institution in common headquarters at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., its present program is: 1) to find "more accurate human measurements of all kinds"; 2) to study the intellect inheritance of the progeny of professors and clergymen...