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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    general public is willing to learn and apply some plain biological truths, there is a prospect of an im- mense betterment. Much of the so-called defective population can be turned into really valuable citizens, who not only would render unnecessary the vast ex- penses now necessary for charities and corrections, but would also be fertile producers and upholders of what is conservative and fine in the community. The sooner we come to forget the idea that the de- pendent children of the State are a burden, and come to recognize that they are so much raw mate- rial waiting to be developed, the sooner shall we gain the reward of a wise self-interest, of common sense, of broad ideals.