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EXCERPT: Let us meet the crisis, recognizing it as a national one, and win as our nation has won before. One hundred thousand of the feeble-minded in the United States alone, constantly in­creasing by birth and immigration, and not one-tenth provided for in institutions. The rest crowd our schools, walk our streets, and fill alike jails and positions of trust, reproducing their kind and vitiating the moral atmosphere....

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TITLE:  The How, The Why, And The Wherefore Of The Training Of Feeble-Minded Children
CREATOR:  Martin W. Barr (author)
DATE:  September 1899
FORMAT:  Article
FORMAT TYPE:  Scholarly journal
 
PUBLICATION:  Journal of Psycho-Asthenics
SOURCE:  Available at selected libraries
LOCATION:  vol.4, no.1, pp.204-212
 
KEYWORDS:  Children, Cognitive Disability, Crime, Doctors, Economics, Edouard Seguin, Education, Eugenics, Feeblemindedness, Heredity, Immigration, Institutions, Martin W. Barr, Medical Professionals, Medicine, Nomenclature, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Training School For Feeble-Minded Children, Physiological Training, Policy, Schools, Work


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