SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS
15 Per Cent. “Slow Learners” (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 12. At least 15 per cent of all secondary school pupils fall into a “slow learner” category, says Mr L. T. Brown, of Westlake High School, in the New Zealand Post-Primary Teachers’ Association journal. He is reporting the findings of recent meetings in Auckland by a group of primary, intermediate and post-primary teachers. "This means that in a third-form intake of 200, at least one complete form will be slow learners.” Mr Brown classifies as slow learners, not only those with a low intelligence quotient but also late developers, “reluctant learners who, for a variety of reasons, have had their thirst for knowledge quenched.” the emotionally unstable who find continuous work a hardship and pupils unfitted in their atmosphere “such as non-verbal types in a verbal education system.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28972, 13 August 1959, Page 16
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