The Handicap of High Intelligence

more and more first-class entrants. We must have more teachers, more nurses, more scientists, and so on, and they must all be of the first rank. One is sometimes tempted to wonder whether there really are enough highly intelligent people to go round. We certainly cannot afford to waste any of them, and we ought perhaps to spend rather more time considering them and their needs than we do. They are surely as important as the corresponding group at the other end of the intelligence scale: the educationally , sub-normal for whom we provide " special educational treatment ". In a sense,