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"GROWTH CEASES AT 14"
MEN OF 40 CRITICISED [from a special CORRESPONDENT J LONDON, August 20 The man of 40 is in the news again. Last week Dr. Bowie, principal of the Dundee School of Economics and Commerce, said most men die at 40, though they are not buried for 30 or 40 vears afterwards. -
This week Dr. Thomas Wright said '*• to a. teachers' conference in London:—< "The growth of intelligence ceases at the age of 14. The man of 40 has no more intelligence than, the girl or boy of 14. if a problem could be chosen that was outside the scope of any special knowledge or experience possessed by the older person,' the grasp and power of the 14-year-old child in the solution of that problem should be as great. "Intelligence begins to decline at 85. This may explain why such matters as politics are sometimes handled in such an absurd fashion."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22524, 15 September 1936, Page 5
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