BRILLIANT AND DULL BOYS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1635, 31 December 1912, Page 7

BRILLIANT AND DULL BOYS.

CONFESSIONS BY MEN WHO HAVE -. EISEN. The. controversy which has been aroused since -,the' "Daily Mail" discovered' "The .brilliant Boy"—the problem of his future despite Lis school laurels—has called forth the. following confessions in "the "Weekly-Dispatch" by men who .have achieved fame in different walks of life:— , Sir Frederick Treves, the famous surgeon, who .was Surgeon-Extraordinary /to Queen- Victoria and SergeantrSnrgeoi to King Edward VII:—"As a schoolboy I should have been classed'as indifferent, vhih my school record as a whole was uniformly unsatisfactory." •Mr.'T. M. Healy, K.C., M.P., the eloquent "barrister. and politician :-V'l was a. dull -boy at school. I left-it at thirteen." A Sir Erederic H. Cowen, the famous conductor and\composer:—"Most of my early education wis by private tuition. As far as my musisal education is concerned, while at the\Conservatoires. of Leipzig and Berlin Idta't think I was considered a dull'boy " V Canon Scott Holland:—"I was and am always a very bad scholar. I could, not win th«i-chief prises at school.. I coiild toddle along very 'happily near the top of my form, and do\decoutly. . This was all. I was generally the second or third, but the form was not\remarkably good." Mr; Israel Zangwill,\..tho novelist:—"l was head boy in my school." t The head master of Eton (Dr. E. Lyttelton), addressing Berkshire teachers, said:—"What is happening..to the cleverest of our boys and girls?\, We cannot afford to waste a. single child ; of real promise. lam afraid the plainness of the issue is not recognised as it 'should -be, and tWv'-children .of promiseJ'are, drifting iulc- a : line'where.their gifts are of no use." .'