the self-training of the specially gifted?

3. What type of education may lead more surely to the discovery of
talent and special faculty in the mass of children?

4. Should the chief aim be to bring the subnormal or backward up
to grade or to give a free and helpful range of opportunity to
natural qualities of leadership? If both should be aimed at
equally, how can the public school aid in the double task?

5. A suggestive list of Books for Parents, issued by the
Federation for Child Study, headquarters at 2 West Sixty-fourth
Street, New York City, includes several of special value in
determining the mental powers and special requirements of
children diverging from the average quality and capacity. Read
at least one of the books indicated and compare local
provisions for examination of children with those advocated as
desirable.

FOOTNOTES:

[11] See _American Journal of Sociology_ for November, 1913.

[12] See _American Journal of Sociology_ for May, 1913.

[13] See chapter on "Democracy and Distinction," in _Social
Organization_, by C.H. Cooley.

CHAPTER X

THE CHILDREN THAT NEVER GROW UP

"It was perhaps an idle thought
But I imagined that if day by day
I watched him and seldom went away,
And studied all the beatings of his heart
With zeal (as men study some stubborn art
For their own good) and could by patience find
An entrance to the caverns of his mind--
I might reclaim him from his dark estate."
--SHELLEY.

"One man, at least, I know,
Who might wear the crest of Bayard
Or Sidney's plume of snow.
Behold him,
The Cadmus of the blind,
Giving the dumb lips language,
The idiot clay a mind.
Wherever outraged Nature
Asks word or action brave,
Wherever struggles labor,
Wherever groans a slave,--
Wherever rise the peoples,
Wherever sinks a throne,
The throbbing heart of Freedom finds
An answer in his own.
Knight of a better era,
Without reproach or fear!
Said I not well that Bayards
And Sidneys still are here?"
--WHITTIER'S tribute to Dr. Howe.

=The Defective Children.=--Not those who die young, full of promise,
to leave a memory of exquisite budding loveliness cut short by
untimely frosts, but those who live on from infancy to ch