ABSTRACT
Constant reminders of the social character of the educational process should by no means be taken as denoting the abolition of personality in the school or as mandating a spirit of indifference toward it. Ultimately, education always has to do with the individual personalities of students, and the social environment is composed, or more properly, is realized in the ranks of separate individuals. Modern psychology is increasingly beginning to be imbued with the idea of the specificity of the individualized goals of education, and is thus inclined to review the traditional concept of giftedness, as abstract and general capacity, or in any case to introduce major correctives into this concept. Cyril Burt, for example, replaces the concept of mental giftedness by that of academic readiness, and in just this way imparts to the entire subject a vocational bias.
