Excerpt from A Manual for the Mental, and Physical Examination of School Children, Vol. 17An accurate knowledge of the child's ability and development will not only be'a help in gradation and classification but should also help in the actual teaching. Every bit of information that a teacher can get about a child should be a help in dealing with that child. Studies made by the author indicate that there is a wide difference of ability possessed by the children ordinarily found in the same grade It will usually be found that there are children in the third grade with as great ability as that of some pupils in the high school. A more careful system of gradation will lead to more nearly equal ability in the same grade and should make better teaching possible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.