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in power of observation. At eight the average has reached, 

 through the training of life's experiences, to within hailing dis- 

 tance of the leaders eighty-five per cent away ; at fourteen the 

 average will be seen to have gained on the leaders so much that 

 only thirty-two per cent divides them. At twenty only twenty- 

 five per cent stands between the average and the highest human 



35% 



Change in form of 

 15th 17th 19th class (29). 



YEAR . . Centers six 



months apart. 



GROUP E. 



Personal positions of fifty-three 

 teachers. Ages placed at thir- 

 teen to twenty for comparison. 



O Average center. 



Personal positions of fifty- 

 one pupils, class (51). 



Center. 



Successful competitors for 

 Pulitzer scholarship, 1896. 

 Fifty per cent of the candi- 

 dates came from this class. 



attainment. By a more complete co- 

 ordination of scientific and educational 

 methods, I believe there will be no 

 trouble in raising the average, now at line 2, to the dotted line 

 above it, beginning at eighth year, passing through (Fig. 30) at 

 fourteenth year, ending at (B) twentieth year. 



This would make the power of the average child at twelve 

 years, by the above-described test, equal to that now acquired by 

 the average adult, and the gain would not be attained by giving 

 power to a few already bright pupils who do not need it, but by 

 bringing all those now weak up to or above the present average. 

 (See charts 51 and 29.) The position of the fifty- three teachers * 

 (chart E) represents as nothing else could the value of the in- 

 struction received in the common and high schools in which they 

 were trained, of which Mr. Wheelock says the results are " not 

 much of anything." On this chart we find five individuals above 

 the eighty -five-per- cent line, while chart 51 shows nineteen higher 

 than eighty-five per cent and only two below the average line, as 

 compared with sixteen below in the former group. 



The unsatisfactory condition mentioned by the Regents' Head 

 Inspector is due almost entirely to the methods of examining 



* This group may not represent the average standing of teachers at all, and it is only 

 just to the many noble workers in the field of education to state that, so far as measured, 

 all having charge of classes averaging over thirteen years of age range between eighty and 

 ninety-five per cent, as the successful in all vocations do. 



