Editing Cyril Burt (section)

==Work in educational psychology==
[[File:Picture of Dr. Cyril Burt.jpg|thumb|upright=1.55|Burt (at the time psychologist to the London County Council) measuring the speed of the thought of a child with a chronoscope]]

In 1908, Burt took up the post of Lecturer in Psychology and Assistant Lecturer in Physiology at Liverpool University, where he was to work under the famed physiologist [[Sir Charles Sherrington]].<ref name="Oxford University Press"/> In 1909 Burt made use of [[Charles Spearman]]'s model of general intelligence to analyse his data on the performance of schoolchildren in a battery of tests. This first research project was to define Burt's life's work in quantitative [[intelligence testing]], [[eugenics]], and the [[inheritance of intelligence]]. One of the conclusions in his 1909 paper was that upper-class children in private preparatory schools did better in the tests than those in the ordinary elementary schools, and that the difference was innate.

In 1913, Burt took the part-time position of a [[school psychology|school psychologist]] for the [[London County Council]] (LCC), with the responsibility of picking out the "feeble-minded" children, in accordance with the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913.<ref name="Oxford University Press"/><ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher|last=Arnold|editor=Arnold, Christopher |editor2=Hardy, Julia|chapter=The Rise of Education|title=British Educational Psychology: The First Hundred Years|publisher=The British Psychological Society|year=2013|pages=19–20|isbn=978-1-85433-720-7}}</ref> He notably established that girls were equal to boys in general intelligence. The post also allowed him to work in Spearman's laboratory, and receive research assistants from the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, including [[Winifred Raphael]].

Burt was much involved in the initiation of child guidance in Great Britain and his 1925 publication ''The Young Delinquent'' led to opening of the London Child Guidance Clinic in [[Islington]] in 1927.<ref>Hearnshaw (1979) p. 44.</ref> In 1924 Burt was also appointed part-time professor of [[educational psychology]] at the [[London Day Training College]] (LDTC), and carried out much of his child guidance work on the premises.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Aldrich
| first = Richard
| title = The Institute of Education 1902–2002 : a centenary history
| publisher = Institute of Education
| year=  2002
| location = London
| isbn = 978-0-85473-635-5}}</ref>