Word: mental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...education attempts to cultivate children's minds and bodies, lets their emotions grow like weeds or wildflowers. The results of this neglect, think mental hygienists, appear in the appallingly high rates of U. S. divorce, crime and insanity, in a national jitteriness. Last week the American Council on Education published a report* proposing that the schools pay as much attention to children's emotions as to the three...
With this candid, sympathetic portrait it becomes clearer why Chinese chopsticks have so long been at home in Confucianism's dish: No other ethical system has ever permitted so much moral, mental and worldly comfort under one head...
...Madison Avenue, where Mrs. Kimball runs a children's bookstore, the happy family was not only visiting but also on sale. The triplets are indeed the children of Jean de Brunhoff, but only in a mental sense. For five years, until his death last October, M. de Brunhoff delighted children and adults with tales of two adventurous elephants, Babar and Celeste. Last week Mrs. Kimball opened a bundle from Paris with the latest Babar book and found that Celeste had become the mother of three little elephant babies (see cut). She decided that this was news for the Herald...
Significant was Dr. Thurstone's discovery that the work people like to do is likely to correspond with their particular mental abilities. One of his students who ranked high in verbal abilities planned to go into advertising and writing, while a student who scored high in perception but low in solving problems wanted to be an actor. Dr. Thurstone concluded that his findings not only made the general intelligence test obsolete but had two profound implications for education: 1) His tests will make it easier to find the occupation for which an individual is fitted...
...Primary Mental Abilities, by Louis Leon Thurstone (University of Chicago Press...