Child training as an exact science : a treatise based upon the principles of modern psychology, normal and abnormal, by George W. Jacoby.

  • Jacoby, George W., 1856-1940.
Date:
[1914], [©1914]
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Credit: Child training as an exact science : a treatise based upon the principles of modern psychology, normal and abnormal, by George W. Jacoby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. THE UNEDUCABLE Not always does therapeutic training succeed in enabling the feeble-minded to provide for their own maintenance and render them capable of going about without supervision. Some children, who in the beginning showed a certain educability, later— and usually around the period of puberty—retro- grade and lose much of the knowledge they had acquired. Frequently even a brief change of sur- roundings, with its interruption of remedial in- fluences, will be sufficient to cause the idiotic child to fall back into the stage of hopeless uneducability. When it becomes clear that all further attempts at education will be futile, the institutional treatment will necessarily be restricted to constant care and supervision. In the chapter on prophylactic training, I have shown that we must endeavor by every means to prevent the birth of children who, according to all human foresight, will be obliged as degenerates to lead lives of misery. I have also said that I even consider so drastic a measure as artificial steriliza-