Transactions of the College of Medicine of South Africa 1981; 3-12
I. Kolvin, "Schools are not only for learning," Transactions of the College of Medicine of South Africa, March, pp. 3-12, (Transactions of the College of Medicine of South Africa, 1981).
A number of key questions are often posed in relation to children's educational progress. First: does the home have an impact on the child's progress and behaviour? Second: does the neighbourhood in which the child lives have an important effect? Third: does the school have an impact on the child's educational progress and behaviour? In other words, does it matter which school the child attends? Fourth: how important is the child's basic intelligence? In other words, does it matter if the child is dull? Obviously all these factors impinge on each other. The last important question is, which of the above are susceptible to modification?