CHILDREN'S INTELLIGENCE
“ The growth of intelligence ceases at the age of 14, and the man of 40 has no more intelligence than the girl or boy of 14,” said Dr Thomas Wright, headmaster of Coatbridge Secondary School, in an address to senior teachers. “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. It is suggested that intelligence begins to decline at 35. This may explain why such matters as politics are sometimes handled in such an absurd fashion.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23002, 3 October 1936, Page 14
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109CHILDREN'S INTELLIGENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23002, 3 October 1936, Page 14
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