The training of mentally defective children / by Martin W. Barr.

  • Barr, Martin W., 1860-1938.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The training of mentally defective children / by Martin W. Barr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~rReprint from the c? / Alienist anq(!! Neurologist VOL. XXVII. ST. LOUIS, AUGUST, 1906. No. 3. THE TRAINING OF MENTALLY DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.* by Martin W. barr, m. d., Elwyn, Pa., Chief Physician to the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children. THE successful training of the feeble-minded in various avocations, thereby transforming a dependent class into a community contributing in large degree to self-sup- port, may be accounted as by no means the least of the achievements of the nineteenth century. Not only does it mark a distinct era in education, but it is already influenc- ing a return in the schools to that development through the hand which, in the past, built up communities and asso- ciations of craftsmen, and dignified labor as an honorable calling, and we cannot but feel that this recognition is the best possible endorsement of our work. That our methods demonstrate the true meaning of the word educate, is readily perceived, for we are forced to study the child and develop what we find. We simply cannot pursue the or- *liead before the Class in Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, May 7th, 1906.