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forts. 3ut we know that everything that makes these children—who 
heyer can become men and women in intelligence—more capable with their 
hands, more reasonable, better self-controlled, more helpful to themselves 
and to others, will assure them a more certain degree of success as indi- 
viduals and in their relation to society. 
I summarize under six headings: 
1. The State should demand and provide careful medical and psycho- 
logical examination of all children in the grade schools, who are two or 
more years retarded in school work. 
2. The State should provide for correction of all physical defects in 
children diagnosed as having remediable detects. 
3. School systems should be obliged to organize and maintain sepa- 
rate schools for all feeble-minded and mentally defective children now in 
grade classes. 
4. Schools for feeble-minded and mentally defective children should 
be in charge of specially trained teachers and supervisors. 
5. The Compulsory Education Law should be amended so as to in- 
clude in its operation children not in good mental condition. 
6. The State Institution for Feeble-ninded should organize and main- 
tain a department where teachers for feeble-minded and mentally defective 
pupils can receive practical and theoretical training. 
Note. Acknowledzment is made, for some valiable statistics used, to Dr. H. H. Goddard, 
Dr. W. J. E. Wallin and Dr. M. Groszmann. 
