Chapter 5: Intelligence And Schooling

In describing a famous woman whom teenagers admire, an adolescent boy from India wrote, “Indira Gandhi is a famous woman because she was the most smartest lady in Indian history. And due to her braveness [and] smartness we teenagers like her.” In interpreting drawings of men studying a 15-year-old Guatemalan boy wrote, “These men are studying because they want to improve in their studies in order to become someone in life. They set up a goal and they are going to attain it by study¬ing.” In drawings by a 12-year-old girl from Singapore (⁰⁴⁷), both the ideal man and the ideal woman are depicted as “brainy” and studies.