The feeble-minded : a guide to study and practice / by E. B. Sherlock, with an introductory note by H. B. Donkin.

Date:
1911
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Credit: The feeble-minded : a guide to study and practice / by E. B. Sherlock, with an introductory note by H. B. Donkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAP. by Miss Mason for instruction in the art of reading may be utilised for the purpose.^ (6) Explain the purpose of some unfamiliar object. (7) Describe common dangers and the way of avoiding them. (E) Morals. (1) Instances of virtuous and vicious practices are to be recognised and named. (2) Inquiry is to be made as to the person’s ideals. Instinctive and emotional activities, habits, and powers of work cannot be thoroughly investigated at the first sitting. A note in regard to them may be made at the expiration of, say, one month from admission. The Training to be Given. “ Education ” says Professor J. Sully ^ “is an art and as such needs to have a clear idea of its end. We cannot begin to educate intelligently until we know what we are aiming at. ” The end is, however, “plainly something large and complex” and to define it we must have recourse to Ethics, Sociology, Logic, Esthetics, and Psychology. Even when it is defined our approach to it can only be asympto- tical, for it is undergoing an evolution which must render our pursuit of it interminable. So far as it is capable of exact statement our ideal is the “intel- ligent, refined and good person. ” Now for the ^ Published at 56 Romola Road, Herne Hill, S.E. J. Sully, The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology^ I909> p. u.