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are equally intelligent, but it does mean that we do not make premature judgments about the intellect or potential of a child on the basis of tests, particularly when there are indications that this particular child has not had ample opportunity to overcome educational bias.

Of course the tests-- even those that are competently constructed, relatively competently-- still are limited measures, are they not?

Oh, no question about it. Sure.

Let me use this as a genesis of this question. Am I recalling correctly, the great psychologist, Lewis Terman, who developed the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, went on some time, I think beginning in the early twenties, with his studies of gifted children-- I believe that study is either still going on or just recently concluded-- where he found that generally speaking not as many of those gifted children achieved as highly as might have been expected.

Your achievement is not just based upon your test score. A number of things are involved, you know, such as motivation, accidents. All sorts of things are determining where, what arrives in life. For example, there's Harvard. A very prestigious university, a tremendous endowment, a high degree of selectivity of faculty and students. The major intellectual creativity in our society is not concentrated at Harvard. I used to tell my students, major black writers have never one to college. Richard Wright never went to college. Jim Baldwin