Studies in Diagnostic Education: The Educational Treatment of an Intellectually Superior Boy

room and the examining rooms of the clinic there is a small swinging gate upon which are printed the words, "NO ADMITTANCE." The boy noticed this sign and remarked, "Mother, it says there, 'No admittance.' How are we going to get in?" This remark showed of course that the boy, not yet six years old, could read, and it probably showed more. Perhaps he was too young in experience to understand the qualifications which the most logical of conclusions undergo in actual life, and again perhaps he was only facetious. Months afterward when he was being taught French as a part of his clinic teaching program, his teacher in the course of a lesson said, "Say, 'I am six years old.' " He replied obediently, "I am six years old." "You know very well you are to say it in French," rebuked the teacher, and the boy answered, "I did just what you told me to.''