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Today, formal college preparation should begin by twelve at the latest. If a child has an IQ below 110, his parents may wish to take him out of the race (90% of college students have higher IQs). But a college-capable child, most educators agree, should begin focusing on his goal in the eighth grade. This is none too soon to visit campuses, and none too soon for an instructive glance at application blanks. Typical question: "If you have not studied all of these subjects, how and when are you planning to make up deficiencies...
...perversion against each of them, and the attempted rape of one of them-"indescribable crimes," as the Los Angeles Times put it last week, whose "horrible details lie in the decent exclusiveness of the court records." Clearly no ordinary criminal, Caryl Chessman, grade-school educated, had an IQ of 136, and he argued his own case creditably in court. Nonetheless, he was convicted by a jury under California's "Little Lindbergh Law" (which, like the federal "Lindbergh Law," makes kidnaping with bodily harm a capital offense) and sentenced to die. It was after he was condemned that he began...
Triumph in the West concludes Author Bryant's rationalization and happy acceptance of Alanbrooke's diaries as the handbook of Allied strategy. Bryant's pattern is the same: Alanbrooke coming up with the answers almost before the problems presented themselves; then low-military-IQ types such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley and Churchill stepping in to upset his foolproof traps for the enemy. Triumph begins in September 1943, ends with a diary entry in June of 1946. The book's thesis is that Alanbrooke tried to draw the Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa...
...precise detail, Herbert Stempel, a paper genius (IQ: 170) and onetime patient of a psychiatrist, related how Twenty One's Enright had set him up for the fix ("How would you like to win $25,000?"), schooled him on how to perform ("Count off and mumble, suddenly open [your] eyes, give a dazzling smile and explode with the answers"), and ordered him to bow before the engaging erudition of Charlie Van Doren. Stempel walked off with a consoling $49,500 in winnings. But when he quickly blew the money, Stempel became disillusioned, started leaking stories...
...exam is mandatory for every child just past the age of eleven, except for those headed for the public schools such as Eton or Harrow. The exam (English composition, arithmetic, an IQ test) ruthlessly splits youngsters into three groups. The top 20% go to respected pre-university grammar schools; the mechanically minded 4% go to good technical schools. The rest are packed off to low-status secondary modern schools, many convinced that they are failures. The effect is to demoralize the whole system...