BOY GENIUS IS PROBLEM CHILD
LONDON, Oct. 20. Britain lias discovered a boy genius. The discovery of a boy with an intelligence quotient exceeding 1170 compared with the average of 100 was reported by Mr W. J. Wheeler, educational psychologist, at a conference of local health authorities at Derby today. Mr. Wheeler said the boy was reported to the education authority as being difficult, but in actual fact lie was intellectually ' superior to his teachers.
No provision was made by the education system for genius, and so no one knew what to do with the boy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23083, 22 October 1949, Page 5
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