What Is a "Normal" Child?

Abstract

What lies beneath the surface is as fasci nating and profitable an area for explora tion in the social sciences as in the physi cal sciences. In the accompanying report by Mr. Harris, Director of the Educational Clinic at Queens College, New York City, we are given a glimpse of what educational clinics are finding out about the below- the-surface structures of personality and learning ability in school children who are judged by their teachers to be "normal." This simply-written but forceful report suggests many lines of inquiry which are of immediate interest to those responsible for the education of teachers.—Douglas E. Scates, Editor.