Backward and Feeble-Minded Children: Clinical Studies in the Psychology of Defectives, with a Syllabus, for the Clinical Examination and Testing of Children (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Backward and Feeble-Minded Children: Clinical Studies in the Psychology of Defectives, With a Syllabus, for the Clinical Examination and Testing of Children Only do parents love to cherish these maimed members Of their ock, but the higher-grade children usually find means Of avoiding detention in institutions, and spend their years in their home localities or in wandering at large. Even so, they are born to trouble and vexation of themselves and others. Their presence and conduct subject their families to ...
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Excerpt from Backward and Feeble-Minded Children: Clinical Studies in the Psychology of Defectives, With a Syllabus, for the Clinical Examination and Testing of Children Only do parents love to cherish these maimed members Of their ock, but the higher-grade children usually find means Of avoiding detention in institutions, and spend their years in their home localities or in wandering at large. Even so, they are born to trouble and vexation of themselves and others. Their presence and conduct subject their families to humilia tion they are an intolerable burden to the teacher and to the schools; they recruit the ranks Of criminals, prostitutes. Vagrants, almstakers. And insane. Indeed, society is coming to realize that all these latter conditions for the most part proceed from the Qame source in weakened or tainted human stock; and that the elimination Of these classes is a matter of the elimination Of the causes operative in the degeneration and reproduction of weak and tainted human stock. This problem of prevention and elimination is the more funda mental one, and there are already known means to its partial solution which will become effective just as fast as society becomes better organized and more enlightened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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