Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 32

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, . €. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1929, BRIGHT CHILDREN OFTEN MISERABLE Director of Child Research Center Tells of Trials of Being Misunderstood. Bright children often lead miserable lives, according to Dr. Mandel Sherman, director of the National Child Research ! Center, at 1819 Columbia road. A worried father the other day brought to Dr, Sherman a 10-year-old boy who was doing poorly in school, had started to stutter badly and was nick- | named “Dumbbell” by his playmates. | The child acted peculiarly and the father was afraid he actually was “dumb.” When Dr. Sherman tested the child, he found, he says, one of the outstand- ing “child geniuses” of his long experi- ence with children. The boy was given a tentative intelligence quotient of 150, but this is not final, because Dr. Sher- man is confident that he failed on some of the tests not because he was too dumb, but because he was too bright for them. R He missed some of the simplcst prob- lems in the 12-year-level tests, passed all of the 14-year level, 75 per cent of the 16-year level and several of the 18-year level calling for a considerable degree of abstract reasoning. Yet this child is in the fifth grade in public{ school and apparently can't keep up with the other children. He has a brother 14 years old, a rather ordinary boy, who constantly twits him for being %0 “dumb” and calls him hateful names. Loses Confidence, He Feels. ‘The result, Dr. Sherman feels, is that the child has lost confidence, is afraid to speak his mind, and the stammering is the logical result. The best way to deal with such a case, Dr. Sherman feels, is to promote the child who is llmng in the fifth grade three or four grades at once and put him on his metal among children of hls own mental age. Such nicknames as “rumbbell,” “low- brow,” “dunce,” etc., among_children are suspicious in themselves, Dr. Sher- man says, and children who suffer from such names are apt to be ex- .tremely brilliant naturally, but need the right surroundings to bring out their brilliance. The child who fails in simple sums, Dr. Sherman feels, may be quite com- petent in elementary algebra, if his mental age indicates such a study. Ordinary children, he says, are quick to recognize and resent superior intelli- gence and persecute the child they think is brighter than they are in an effort to drag him down to their level. Under such conditions the child be- comes fearful, withdraws into himself, and actually may appear very dumb in- deed to teachers and parents. This is a defense reaction on the part of the child, who wishes to appear ‘“normal,” and may be the basis of serious mental troubles later. Intensive Study Made. ‘widespread is this resentment ulimt "bflxht" children, Dr. Sherman points out, that in a study undertaken at Stanford University involving hun- dreds of such boys and girls many parents were extremely loath to have their offspring appear unusually bril- liant because of the common tradition that bright children always go insane. This is far from true, Dr. Sherman -y:. unless they are driven insane by Brightness and neu- rollc tendencies are not born together, but_often are world's. 2. L™ this boy, he m’b‘a out, shows how little depeni:e:ce can be placed on school progress in de- termining a child's real ability. R WALKER OFF TO FLORIDA. New York Mayor, Suffering Cold, to Be Gone Week or 10 Days. NEW YORK, February 18 (#).— Mayor James J. Walker. who has been Meflnc from a cold for some time, left yesterday for Florida, to spend a week or 10 days, ‘The mayor lnvaled in the private car of William F. 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