THE SCHOOL DUNCE.
SOME GREAT EXAMPLES. LONDON, Jan. C. Dr. A. F. Trcdgold, consulting physician bo tho National Association for the Feeble-minded, and an authority on mental diseases and eugenics, addressing a women’s conference, said ho believed that the school dunce often possessed great common-sense and intelligence and succeeded better in after life than tho scholarship boy. Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton had been backward children, and if they had lived to-day probably they would have been sent to special schools. Their mental powers developed late. It was a crime, ho said, to send a sensitive child to bed in the dark, thus causing a frenzy of terror, _ instead of permitting a nightlight which quickly induced sleep.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 10
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