Bringing up the normal child / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D.

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[1914]
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Credit: Bringing up the normal child / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    defectives whose inherent mental disabilities had not previously been fully recognized. Dr. Goddard thinks that the Binet-Simon tests deserve a place beside Darwin’s exposition of evolution and Mendel’s laws of heredity. The time is probably not distant when every wise parent will apply similar tests to his own children, and will be governed in considerable measure in directing the education and in the se- lection of vocations for his offspring by what the tests reveal. If your child fails to get on well at school, or manifests any peculiar traits that cause you solicitude, it will be well for you to have the Binet-Simon tests applied by a competent exam- iner. But we shall have occasion to deal more ex- tensively with the aspect of the subject in the suc- ceeding monograph. Nature Versus Nurture It is eminently desirable that you should study the hereditary tendencies of your children, and note at the earliest possible moment what partic- ular strains of ancestral traits seem to be domi- nant in each one, for, according to the newest teachings of heredity, members of the same fra- ternity may differ very radically in this regard. It will be obvious that children inheriting dif- ferent physical and mental traits may require [18]
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