ABSTRACT
This chapter proceeds to a closer examination of the idea of quality of learning, with special reference to the needs and abilities of the dull child. In dealing with dull children, the teacher tells us, the great problem is to find the rabbit—to find something that really interests the child. Once the spark of interest has been kindled, the pupils may show real capacity for hard work. Bright children may be educated in accordance with a philosophy that stresses freedom but dull children learn differently and profit most from teacher-directed activity, from sticking to the facts and not worrying their empty heads about the explanations. Surely the education of even dull children has a wider aim than mere training; it is concerned not merely with the learning of this or that, but in learning this and that in ways which make the fullest contribution to the general physical and psychological development of the learner.
