15,000 WORDS A DAY
A CHILD’S VOCABULARY. Dr. R. D. Gillespie, a mental specialist, lecturing in London, said that the growth of the brain did not begin at birth, for then ib had attained 1 otnef'ourth of its full size. After the age. of 16 there did hot appear to be any increase in the growth of intelligence, but only the expansion of Imowledge and the growth of experience. Tests applied to a throe-years -aid child showed, that in 2 41iours it used 15.000 words, but only SOO of them were different. m - I
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 July 1930, Page 2
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