No Provision For Boy Genius
LONDON, Fri. (12.30 p.m.).—Britain has discovered a boy genius. Discovery of a boy with an intelligence quotient exceeding 170. 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 autnority as being difficult but, in actual fact, he was intellectually superior to his teachers. No provision was made by the education system for a genius, and so ilo one knew what to do with the boy.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1949, Page 5
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