Education of Parents and Intelligence of Children 1The findings presented in this paper are from an analysis of the records of the University of Minnesota High School Personnel Office, made in cooperation with Professor John E. Anderson, Director of the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Welfare.

That there exists some degree of relationship between the amount of schooling of parents and the measured intelligence of their children has been revealed by investigations dealing with a variety of problems. Jones (6), in a study of 120 superior children, found that a large proportion of the parents were college graduates. Goodenough (5), using the Kuhlmann Revision, tested 213 children ranging in age between 18 and 54 months. Each child was retested with the same test after an interval of six weeks. The r between I.Q.'s on the first test and education of mother was .319 ? .042; between I.Q.'s on the first test and education of father, .264 ? .043. The r between I.Q.'s on the second test and education