We need, also, to use it with far more ingenuity to ascertain what children are most promising and most likely to dower the race with special gifts.
=New Observation Records for Children.=--A very important "Observation Record for the Selection of Gifted Children in the Elementary Schools" has been drawn up by Julie A.Badanes, which has been published with an introduction by Dr.Saul Badanes.

In this introduction it is well said that "the idea of establishing a norm for every school year" is a new one.

The measurement of intelligence by Binet dates only back to 1905.

In the treatment of the "Intelligence of Pupils," Meumann declares "that the problem of measuring the intelligence of school children is the basic problem in education." Recently William Stern has dealt at length with "The Selection of Gifted Children in Public Schools" and with related elements of investigation of the intelligence of children.

William H.Allen, in his book, _Universal Training for American Citizenship_, has, as Doctor Badanes notes, given a chapter to the "Training of the Specially Gifted." We are all concerned with growing earnestness in the problem of getting in democracy the leadership which all social organization requires.