"BELOW AVERAGE" BOYS
_ Sir,-You published recently an exe tremely interesting etter signed "Student" . (Invercargill) about Air Force passes by boys who did nothing at school and yet managed to pass into air-crews. I venture to think the reason may be this. Boys are growing so fast during the adolescent years that a great proportion® are, absolutely incapable of close application to study-in fact, mentally lazy, and may be graded accordingly. I have known it happen. The same lads, when they reach eighteen and are urged on by the determination to get in an air crew at any cost, apply themselves to the stiff study, and pass accordingly. Their period of rapid de velopment and growth is nearly over, | and so, with the incentive, they succeed, The ability to use the mental powers Was°just dormant for the time beijnc.
ISOBEL
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 5
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141"BELOW AVERAGE" BOYS New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 319, 3 August 1945, Page 5
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