Excerpt from Classes for Gifted Children: An Experimental Study of Methods of Selection and Instruction The rise of every system of universal public educa tion has compelled the development of a system of grad ing and grouping whereby relatively large numbers of children of approximately the same pedagogical status may be handled in a single class: some such arrange ment would appear to be inevitable if economy of time and money is to be secured. N 0 one conversant with the situation, however, will contend that the pupils of a given grade in our ordinary public-school classes are, ipso facto, alike or even very similar to one another in range of information, in susceptibility to training, in general intelligence. On the contrary, every one will admit that a considerable inequality exists in these respects, so that, while we gain by our system of grade grouping in one way, we lose by the same system in another way. 'evi dently, if a given system were large enough so that it would be possible, let us say, to subdivide the pupils of the fourth grade into ten classes, we might gain the advantages of grouping and also gain the advantages of homogeneity within the groups by sorting the pupils into ten groups in such a way that each group should com prise pupils of closely similar ability. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.