Although the minds of men bounce on different levels, all walk and eat in the same physical world. The business of schools is to train youngsters to take the best places their abilities will allow in this world. Most of the information the public gleans from schools concerns the vast body of boys and girls who act in plays or debate important questions or learn stenography or star in basketball or lead cheers or run for office or pass and flunk courses. There is, however a smaller group of students whom the schools must mold. They may be kind and earnest and strong and gentle but their academic achievement measures lower than the marks of the pupils with whom the public usually is most concerned...

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