Genetic and Environmental Factors in Human Ability: A by Philip E. Vernon (auth.), J. E. Meade, A. S. Parkes (eds.)

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As long as each specialist is confident in the adequacy of his own preferred explanation, no such requests will be made. Only too often at the beginning of a scientific paper one finds a statement by the author that certain data could not be gathered because the school or institution would not give more time. This is an argument which I find very unconvincing. Teachers and educational authorities are interested and genuine partners in research, provided the reasons for asking for additional time are stated persuasively.

In Current Perspectives in Social Psychology. (Ed. E. P. Hollander and R. G. ) London. Oxford University Press. 5. HIMMELWEIT, HILDE T. 1964. A ten-year follow-up study: its objectives and conceptual framework. Paper read at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society, Leicester. 6. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. 1954. Early Leaving Report. London. O. 7. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. 1961. Statistics qf Education. Part 3, Supplementary. London. O. 8. TuRNER, R. H. 1961. Modes of social ascent through education: sponsored and contest mobility.

Young people who received relatively little 40 FACTORS IN HUMAN ABILITY emotional support from home needed such support, especially at the moment of transition from school to work. A questioner suggested that, since the child's educational motivation became so difficult to influence later in his school life, there should be much more universal nursery education. Professor Himmelweit said she would like to go further; just as nursery school education, with its respect for different rates of development, had had a good effect on primary school education, so the time had come for this same approach to infiltrate into secondary schools.

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