Modern teachers believe that dull children are worth cultivating, have shown that with proper encouragement a sub-par child may produce remarkable paintings, sculpture, craftsmanship. They have been less successful in teaching such children to read and write.
Leon Ormond, a teacher in the Arts High School of Newark, N. J., has two classes of children with I. Q.s of 80 or less. Their reading is poor, their spelling worse. But Teacher Ormond encouraged them to write verses. Last week he triumphantly reported that near-morons can write. To prove it he published uncorrected samples of their poetry in The Clearing House, an educational...
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