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Page 98 - Near" genius or genius. 120-140 Very superior intelligence. 110-120 Superior intelligence. 90-110 Normal or average intelligence.
Page 18 - For teachers of the third class — and we should be satisfied with no other — we must pay salaries larger relatively than we have paid at any time in the past, and must adopt a policy which will give such recognition to teachers of unusual ability as will hold them in the service of the schools against the temptation of better pay elsewhere. Temporary increase in pay of teachers will not be sufficient There must be such guaranty of good wages in the years to come as will induce young men and women...
Page 28 - The recommendations for assignment to labor battalions because of low grade intelligence, number 9,871 (0.6+ per cent.). For assignment to development battalions, in order that they might be more carefully observed and given preliminary training to discover, if; possible, ways of using them in the army, 9,432 (0.6 + per cent.) men were recommended.
Page 24 - Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities: (If there are none, so state.) None.
Page 108 - If nothing of the sort has ever happened to you, then tell me of an exciting experience someone whom you know has had. You may even make up a story of this kind, if you have to, though I believe you will do better, on the whole, with a real one. I am going to give you about twenty minutes in which to write. You are to write on both sides of the paper, to do all the work yourselves, and...
Page 16 - SPIRITUAL REWARDS Teachers who do their work well and who, either in fact or by faith, see the world made better as a result ; individuals made healthier, wiser, happier; sin and suffering made less; the common wealth made more; social purity and civic righteousness increased; public laws made more just; patriotism broadened and purified; State and Nation made stronger and safer against attack from without and decay from within; and the world lifted on to a higher plane and into a brighter sunshine...
Page 17 - ... could while saving from their comparatively good wages money to start them in business or home making, or to enable them to prepare themselves for those professions for which adequate preparation is required and demanded. Many of the ablest men and women in all walks of life have been school teachers. A good-sized ex-teachers' association could be formed of members of any recent Congress of the United States. We have just nominated two ex-teachers as candidates for the presidency. Unfortunately,...
Page 18 - Which shall we accept? Makeshift teachers of the first two classes we may continue to get in sufficient numbers by paying salaries relatively as large as those paid in 1914. To have the same relative value and purchasing power as salaries paid in 1913-14, the present salaries and salaries for some years to come must be approximately twice as large as they were then.
Page 16 - ... must always be that workers of whatever sort received the largest part of their pay in kind, as millers take toll of the grist they grind. Those that work with material things that have easily measured cash values receive their pay chiefly in money or in things whose values are most easily measured in money. Other rewards will be less in proportion and in importance. Those who work largely for other than the material results that can be measured by money must continue to be content to receive...
Page 27 - Wherever intelligence tests have been made in any considerable number in the schools, they have shown that not far from 2 per cent of the children enrolled have a grade of intelligence which, however long they live, will never develop beyond the level which is normal to the average child of 11 or 12 years.