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forts. Rut we know that everything that makes these children — who 

 never 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 defects. 



3. School systems should lie 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 lie amended so as to in- 

 clude in its operation children not in good mental condition. 



6. The State Institution for Feeble-minded should organize and main- 

 tain a department where teachers for feeble-minded and mentally defective 

 pupils can receive practical and theoretical training. 



Note. Acknowledgment is made, for some valiable statistics used, to Dr. H. H. Goddard, 

 Dr. W. J. E. Wallin and Dr. M. Groszmann. 



