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About 20 per cent of the children are above average in the total population of children. They are called gifted or bright children. Their intelligence quotient is about 90 and goes up to 110. These children need special attention of the educators. Special methods of teaching are needed for them. They have to be given more work and teaching learning should be made more exciting for them.
Human civilization is very old and most of the civil-sations had developed their own systems of education. In the early civilizations education was meant only for the Prices. This process of education for the princes continued for quite a long time. The great political thinker machiavelli wrote a book called “The education of a prince†which was meant to give political education to a prince. In the same way Rousseau experimented with the education of children ...
Pestalozzy was the first psychologist to have made use of psychology in the education of children. Now-a-days it is rightly considered that for a teacher it is equally important to know the child as much as he needs to know his subject. In this book most of the material discusses the areas like heredity, physical development of the child, intellectual development of the child and the emotional and social development of the child.
Different societies in the world have developed through their peculiar geographical, historical and social circumstances. However, with the onset of the Industrial Revolution and the humanistic considerations developing in the world for the development of the society, the study of social psychology has acquires a new status. How different groups behave with each other and even among themselves affects the progress of the society. This book gives an insight into ...