The Exceptional ChildC. Scribner's sons, 1917 - 764 pages |
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ability abnormal activity agraphia arrested development average backward Binet Tests cational causes cent centres chapter chil civilization levels colored conception court criminal culture definite delinquency disease distinct Doctor dren educational clinic efficiency elements Ellis Island emotional endowments eurhythmic examination experience fact feeble-minded function girls give grade growth heredity human imbeciles individual instincts intellectual intelligence juvenile kind lack masturbation matter means measure memory ment mental age mental defect methods mind modern moral motor nature nervous Neurasthenia normal child observation opportunity organized parents performance level period physical physiological Plainfield play practice primitive problem proper prostitution psychic psychological psychopathic pupils race racial represent result retarded says scale sense sexual skill social standards Star Rover subnormal symptoms teacher things tion truancy vidual Vineland visual William James Sidis Winifred Sackville Stoner words
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Page 204 - Of the wild flower's time and place, Flight of fowl and habitude Of the tenants of the wood; How the tortoise bears his shell, How the woodchuck digs his cell, And the ground mole sinks his well; How the robin feeds her young, How the oriole's nest is hung...
Page 205 - Where the wood-grape's clusters shine; Of the black wasp's cunning way, Mason of his walls of clay, And the architectural plans Of gray hornet artisans! For, eschewing books and tasks, Nature answers all he asks; Hand in hand with her he walks, Face to face with her he talks, Part and parcel of her joy, — Blessings on the barefoot boy!
Page 90 - I returned, and saw under the sun; that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 158 - This is the mildest degree of mental defect, and the feeble-minded person is ' ' one who is capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, but is incapable, from mental defect existing from birth, or from an early age, (a) of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows; or (b) of managing himself and his affairs with ordinary prudence.
Page 298 - The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, black and white, nay, even the very cat and dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner.
Page 75 - Johnny Jones has lost a leg, Fanny's deaf and dumb, Marie has epileptic fits, Tom's eyes are on the bum, Sadie stutters when she talks, Mabel has TB Morris is a splendid case of imbecility. Billy Brown's a truant, And Harold is a thief; Teddy's parents gave him dope, And so he came to grief. Gwendolin's a millionaire, Jerald is a fool; So everyone of these darned kids Goes to a special school.
Page 386 - The analysis of the data," according to the authors, "gives statistical support to the conclusion abundantly justified from numerous other considerations, that feeble-mindedness is no elementary trait, but is a legal or sociological, rather than a biological term. Feeble-mindedness is due to the absence, now of one set of traits, now of quite a different set. Only when both parents lack one or more of the same traits do the children all lack the traits. So, if the traits lacking in both parents are...
Page 135 - When we add to these predisposing causes the small and decreasing families, the later marriages, so that more and more are born of post-mature parents and thus physiologically tend to precocity ; the over-nurture of only children who are so prone to be spoiled and ripened still earlier by unwise fondness ; the mixture of...
Page 76 - So every one of these darned kids Goes to a special school. They've specially, nice teachers, And special things to wear, And special time to play in, And a special kind of air. They've special lunches right in school, While I — it makes me wild ! — I haven't any specialties, I'm just a normal child.
Page 204 - Flight of fowl and habitude Of the tenants of the wood; How the tortoise bears his shell, How the woodchuck digs his cell, And the ground-mole sinks his well; How the robin feeds her young, How the oriole's nest is hung; Where the whitest lilies blow, Where the freshest berries grow, Where the ground-nut trails its vine, Where the wood-grape's clusters shine; Of the black wasp's cunning way, Mason of his walls of clay, And the architectural plans Of gray hornet artisans!