The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1898
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Credit: The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    boys, that shows itself in the existence of affectionate relationship between pupil and teacher. The inmates, instead of feeling that they are outcasts and pariahs, have a true pride in their surroundings, and act it out in their later lives. For such reasons as these, President Fetteroff is able to say: “Judging from what I see of our graduates, I am inclined to think that they do better in life than the same number of boys picked from the public schools.” And this occurs, in spite of the non-natural and artificial en- vironment produced by guardians who take up the work as a profession. It does not need an unusually clear sight to see that if the State’s children were from the beginning brought up under still more favor- able auspices, if they enjoyed the blessing of indi- vidual care, affection and training, if their associations and examples were of the same nature as one finds in good families, if their practical experiences were such as to fit them for the demands of actual life, one would not have to think of institutions for chil- dren as the breeding nests of pauperism, vice, and crime. In the community, as it now exists, there is every element which is necessary to the realization of this plan; but instead of being wisely used, it is wasted. Too much money is now spent; too much effort on the part of philanthropic persons of all sorts is scattered over a ragged system; too many lives are spoiled. In the face of all this, so long as the