Kerschensteiner's Munich study found exceptional artistic talent concentrated among very poor children and often unnoticed by schools¶

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q2 i? In Kerschensteiner's experiments on roughly 50,000 Munich public-school children, drawings of remarkable artistic merit were found almost all to be the work of children of very poor parents, and in most cases the school had not properly appraised this talent. → William Stern 1910

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William Stern 1910¶

William Stern. (1910). The Supernormal Child. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://archive.org/search?query=Journal+of+Educational+Psychology

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Stern's account of Kerschensteiner's observational study of "some 50,000 children of the public schools" of Munich, who made free-hand drawings from memory and from nature. Stern reports the exceptional drawings came almost all from very poor parents and that in most cases the talent "had not been properly appraised by the school," in some cases not noticed at all.

"Among the drawings were found some of remarkable artistic merit, and these were found by Kerschensteiner to be, almost all, the work of children of very poor parents."

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