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Modern Ideals Of Education Applied To The Training Of Mental Detectives
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| 30 | That these colonies, once established, would prove a real boon there is no reason to doubt, and New York is now preparing to follow the lead set by Massachusetts at Templeton and inaugurate a farm colony for all classes of mental defectives at Haverstraw, N. Y. | |
| 31 | On Randall's Island we have instituted, to a certain degree, the system prevailing at Templeton, that is, on leaving school the boys and girls are given some definite manual employment and much of the work in the shops, such as basket-making, carpet and rug weaving, dressmaking and tailoring, etc., is performed by them, as well as the housework in the different buildings and considerable work on the grounds. | |
| 32 | We shall probably not have to wait long to see each State with its farm colony for defectives organized, established and working in harmony with modern progressive thought toward the aim of all development -- efficiency -- and we shall then find that these ideals of social usefulness and true democracy may be at last realized by these beings -- the most really dependent of all the wards of the State. | |
