Date of Award
6-1932
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Education
First Advisor
George E. Vander Beke
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
Leadership and efficiency will always be determined by the sane, the apt, the well-balanced. If this be true then the gifted ones should be so trained and given opportunity commensurate with their natural aptitudes and thus be made levers by which the whole plane of existence may be lifted to higher levels of intelligence, conduct and happiness.
The apt, the .bright, the gifted pupil is not only entitled to our consideration as his right, but because of the necessity for his leadership in the progressive movements of our civilization. The public schools are criticized for not making provisions for the bright pupils. We have assumed in a way that they should take care of themselves.
An ideal democracy should offer an opportunity to each individual to develop his particular talents to the utmost limits of his own capacity, and not up to the limit of the capacity of the average mass. The opportunity for the self-development of the highly endowed individual is very inadequate. He must develop himself not because of us, but in spite of us, as Dr. Goddard puts it. If it were not for the creativeness of the highly endowed individual our present civilization would have been in a backward stage.
Recommended Citation
Poppe, Ella T., "The Exceptionally Bright Child, and Provisions Made for Him in the Classroom" (1932). Bachelors’ Theses. 1354.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1354
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the· Faculty of the· College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin