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Excerpt from: Origin Of The Treatment And Training Of Idiots That which most essentially constitutes idiocy, is the absence of moral volition, superseded by a negative will; that in which the treatment of an idiot essentially consist is, in changing his negative will into an affirmative one, his will of loneliness into a will of sociability and usefulness; such is the object of the moral training.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Origin Of The Treatment And Training Of Idiots | |
| Creator: | Edward Seguin (author) | |
| Date: | 1856 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | American Journal of Education | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | vol.2, pp.145-152 | |
| Keywords: | Abbe Sicard; Advocacy; Aveyron, France; Children; Cognitive Disability; Edouard Seguin; Education; Educational Institutions; France; Idiocy; Institutions; Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; Philippe Pinel; Physiological Training; Psychiatric Disability; Psychology; Religion; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities | |
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