Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1929 — Page 3

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VEXING RIDDLE FACES EDISON ON SUCC ESSOR Nn One Knows What Genius Is or How It Can Be Revealed. \h* t?&: a^o^ r r^s Governor LeHe in finding Ihr Indiana rrpres^ntativr. BY WILLIAM A. MILLS prwiidnnt of Hanover Cotleve. Hanover (Copyright. 1929. by Th Timm Mr. Edison's search for a succes--or presents two rather serious difficulties. In the first place, no one knows precisely what genius is, nor, •ppnpfore how to find it. In the serond piace, no one knows whether formal education tends to foster or to renress genius. Five theories are held by psycho.ojnsts as to the nature and origin of genius. The first is known as the. Superior Intelligence theory. It proposes that, genius is the upper range of the intelligence scale. Advocates of this idea hold that ne difference between the gifted man and his neighbor is wholly one of intelligence quotients; that all individuals having an TQ of 140 or better should be classed as geniuses. However, in view of the fact that a mutitude of persons with high IQs live very commonplace lives, genius must be something more than superior intelligence. Nor may we assume that Mr. Edison can find s he hoy to carry on his inventine career bv a nation-wide use of the Binet test. Held to Be Degeneracy The second theory has had considerable vogue for many years. It explains genius os a form of degeneracy, certain abilities being enormouslv developed at the expense of other abilities, leaving the individual mentally unbalanced. Advocates of this theory base their generalizations on the history of mental defectiveness which runs through the biographies of an appalling number of the world’s great men. But these conclusions of Nordau and other follows of Lombroso fail to explain the equally large number of great men free from all forms of mental derangement. _ , . The third explanation offered ts known as the Prophetic Theory. It would define genius as the superior ability resulting from a continued and sustained adolescence, and the spiritual abandon experienced when the individual is freed from the inhibitions involved in systematized life. This theory has much to recommend it. but fails to explain the large number of very superior individuals whose entire lives were thoroughly “harnessed up" and also that other large number of equally gifted persons whose lives, free from the harness of responsibility, are frittered away in superficialities. Reflected by Experts The popular theory is that gifted individuals are born with special endowments for specific activities; that the great artist, musician, poet, banker, railroad magnate, is bom with a something plus, and that each is blessed with a special kind of machinery peculiar to his type of genius- This marches along with ultra-Orthodox theology. The psychozanalysts reject these several hypotheses and advance the suggestion that the differences between the genius and the common man. and between the several types of genius, do not consist in constitutional variations at all, but in the complexes which go to make up the composite and mysterious things we call personality. They denv that the genius can do something which the common man can not do- They think that he can be accounted for by analysis of the urges which are active in Ins life as the result of the peculiar stimulations to which he has been subjected in his social environment. ‘ ‘ Fo reach of these divergent theories. an array of reputable psychologists stands ready to do battle. Os course the most that, can be said in the present state of our knowledge is that no one of them is wholly right and that the truth of the mat!* ter probably will be found to involve them all. Must Investigate Further ,ve shall have to wait for further investigation to give us a satisfactory definition. All that we may say with assurance is that now and then an individual appears who invents anew device, song or concept: that he possesses the ability to perceive similarities and identities which had not been perceived before; that he has creative imagination; that he has a flair for the thing with which he busies himself, and therefore superior concentration of mind and power of sustained application. Whether these traits are born in him. produced by e fortunate combination of circumstances, or developed in the course of his education, no one can say. Nor does any one have a reliable method of identifying these gifted individuals before they blossom out. It is of the nature of genius to evade or transcend rules. Genius makes rules. It can not be measured with ordinary yard sticks. One wonders what might have been Mr. Edison's reaction as a boy to the embattled questionnaires, tests, and measurements which confront the modern school boy. No doubt The Boy is somewhere here in Indiana, but how will Governor Leslie find him? Will he got to school records, or to well manicured and highly standardized laboratories where boys repeat exercises with bored uniformity? Where Will He Find Him? Or will the Governor go to the little shops in the attic, the woodshed, th? cellar, where the boy gives way to ms free spirit? And will the Governor not after all have to depend on his hunch? If the bov should be found byaccident or questionnaire, what assurance have we that the best school of technology will foster his proper development? Can we be sure that even the most approved course of training will not “cramp the style” of our budding genius?

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