TlIK CITY TKACIIES SELF-RELIANCE 



It is very likely that the street ji;amin may he more self reliant, more assertive, more capable 

 of looking after himself in some kinds of difficult positions, than a boy who has been more 

 carefully nurtured. Such real benefit as life in the streets confers is mostly of this sort — 

 a very different thing from real intellectual capacity. Parents who want their children 

 to be well educated ought to provide tlicm with such opportunities for developing self 

 reliance and initiative as the boys of the streets have, but give them mental training of a 

 more valual)le kind at the .same time. Photograph by Milton Fairchild. (Fig. 9.) 



iniLlli^'cnco. Binet himself rcviewed- 

 these results, and concluded that they 

 were due to a relation between intclli- 

 j^ence and social status. He continues: 



"There is a whole series of tests in 

 which the advance is more marked than 

 the others; and consequently, it is 

 ]jerhaps possible to deduce something 

 interesting upon which aptitudes are 

 most favored in the education of a rich 

 child. A priori one would suppose 

 that these children, little used to serving 

 themselves, constantly surrounded by 

 willing servants, would be more awk- 

 ward with their hands than future work- 

 men. But without making sui)i)ositions 

 let us see what the facts reveal." 



As a fact, these children were fotnid 



to have done particularly well in 

 arranging a series of weights in accord- 

 ance with their real value. On the 

 whole, Binet decided that their super- 

 iority was in those traits in which 

 ])roficiency was favored either by atten- 

 tion (3 tests), home training (4 tests) 

 or language (6 tests); the last point 

 was the most consjiicuous, the children 

 of the ujjper classes being able to under- 

 stand and to express themselves more 

 readily than the average at an early age. 

 3. Alorle studied thirty children from 

 one of the ]X)orest schools in Paris, and 

 an ec|ual number from a wealthy school,^ 

 and foimd a dilTerence of ^ year, on 

 the average, between the intellectual 

 stamling of ])upils of the same chrono- 



* Hinet, Alfred. The Development of Intelligence in Children, i)p. 316-322. 

 Training School, 1916. 



« Binet, op. cit., ])p. 326-328. 



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