LEARNING HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHERS 



The boy of the city streets becomes a "good mixer," and this probably makes him appear to 

 have greater abihty than he really possesses. Psychological tests have almost uniformly 

 shown him to have less real intelligence than boys of the class who are kept more closely 

 at home. It is, therefore, necessary to suppose that boys of the street have either been 

 brought up in conditions which were unfavorable to the development of intelligence, 

 or have failed to inherit good intelligence. There is unquestionably some truth in both 

 of these ideas. Photograph by Milton Fairchild. (Fig. 10.) 



logical age. Of the thirty wealthy 

 pupils, sixteen were ahead of their age, 

 while only five in the poorer school were 

 advanced. The better group showed 

 four backward children, the poorer 

 group twelve. 



A GERMAN INVESTIGATION 



4. Teachers in the Breslau (Germany) 

 schools compared pupils in the Volk- 

 schule, attended by the poorer classes, 

 and the Vorschule, whose pupils come 

 from the ranks of the well-to-do.^ 



The 9-year-old boys in the former 

 were, in intelligence, 10% inferior to 

 boys of the same age in the latter, while 

 ten-year-old boys in the poorer school 

 were equal only to 9-year-old boys in 

 the richer school. It was suggested that 

 children of the higher social classes 

 mature earlier. 



5. Three groups of pupils, each con- 

 taining about seventy individuals of 

 both sexes and the same age, were 

 compared by J. and R. Weintrob. 

 Group A belonged to the wealthy class, 



*This and the two following studies are taken from a review by Bridges and Coler in the 

 Psych. Rev., January, 1917. 



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