Individual Studies, Their Educational Significance

There can be no doubt that one of the main educational problems of the dayis to be found in the difficulty experienced in trying to bring many of our children up to the average level of intellectual attainment required by the school. In all schools of the present day there are to be found children, often many children, who, though not mentally defective in the usual sense of that term, since they can cope successfully enough with the ordinary needs and conditions of living even in a complex modern society, are yet unable to compete successfully with their fellows at school. They are ' dull,' ' backward,' ' retarded ' in school work, while only too often the result of their school dullness becomes evident in their relation to life outside.