GIRLS FOR MEMORY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 3

GIRLS FOR MEMORY.

BOYS’ REASQN BETTER. WHAT RESEARCH SHOWS. LONDON. March 26. Girls’ memories are the best, but hoys’ score when it comes to reasoning, says the Industrial Fatiguo Research Board, emphasising the success of special examinations, with a view to discovering the most suitable occupations for London’s school children. Eighty per cent, of the children who took the Board’s advice in 1922 are now happily and remuneratively employed. They include a girl who. when asked what she would do if slie had no teeth, promptly replied: “I would have to use scissors to cut my finger nails.”

“This is a subject on. which no man can express an ex-cathedra opinion,” said tho Director of Education (Mr S. H. Smith), at Sydney. “It is purely a psychological question, and only after long and patient research would anyone be in a position to give a pronouncement.

“So far as I am aware, the subject has not been specially investigated iu New South Wales,” he added. “Yet many girls from our schools in open competition with boys have won mathematical scholarships—an undoubted test of reasoning. “We have also found that in competitions for University prizes, the girls have held their own with the boys. It is not at all uncommon for a girl to win a scholarship; indeed, the goneral proficiency certificate this year went to a girl.”