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Collection: Documents - Catalog Card
| EXCERPT: They claim not only that they are really measuring intelligence, but that intelligence is innate, hereditary, and predetermined. They believe that they are measuring the capacity of a human being for all time and that this capacity is fatally fixed by the child's heredity. Intelligence testing in the hands of men who hold this dogma could not but lead to an intellectual caste system in which the task of education had given way to the doctrine of predestination and infant damnation.... |
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| TITLE: |
The Abuse Of The Tests |
| CREATOR: |
Walter Lippmann (author) |
| DATE: |
November 15, 1922 |
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Article |
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Magazine |
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| PUBLICATION: |
The New Republic |
| SOURCE: |
Available at selected libraries |
| LOCATION: |
vol. 32, pp. 297-298 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Children, Education, Eugenics, Heredity, Institutions, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Lothrop Stoddard, Prejudice, Schools, Statistics, Walter Lippmann |
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