Word: jersild
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HAROLD JERSILD...
...Corey report met with praise, and with some apprehension. Professor Arthur T. Jersild of Teachers College liked the report's "emphasis on . . . [the] many kinds of ability. . . . An I.Q. of 200 is useless if it is fettered by archaic habits of thought." But he raised a point which had already bothered the committee, "the hazards to the individual of being singled out as an outstandingly able person," and added a personal misgiving: "whether a roster of elite human beings . . . is wholesome and wise from a democratic point of view...
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