ading from the lips
and other educational devices used in their behalf make their
condition so superior to that of the deaf-mutes of old that it is
cause for gratitude to every parent of a deaf child. The crippled
children now are seen not to be different from other children in their
educational rights and as needing only more consideration of physical
requirements to be fitted for useful work.

The significance of the removal of educational provisions for the
blind, the deaf, the crippled, and the invalid children from the
provisions of Boards of Charity and their assignment to departments of
state and local Boards of Education, is great. It shows that we are
becoming as capable in the community-at-large of understanding the
radical difference between those who are defective in mind and those
who are merely handicapped by loss of some special sense or some
physical power as loving and wise parents have been when either
defective or handicapped children have called upon them for special
care. The children that find it harder than most of their age and
station to grow up to full enjoyment and use of life's opportunities,
because of some weight of affliction, are, we now know, entitled to
all the training that the normal child receives and whatever else of
special education their condition requires. The children that can
never grow up to mental maturity, even with all that educational
ingenuity can offer, are the permanent members of Society's Infant
Class.

QUESTIONS ON THE CHILDREN THAT NEVER GROW UP

1. What is the modern social program in respect to the care and
training of the feeble-minded?

2. What should fathers and mothers of the feeble-minded do to help
realize that program?

3. How far should social control compel the segregation or
sterilization, or both, of those obviously unfit to become
parents?

4. What can be done by mental hygiene to lessen the numbers of the
insane, the "queer," the weak-willed, and the slow-minded?

5. The consensus of experts seems to indicate that the first need
is to segregate in suitable institutions under permanent
custodial care all the markedly inferior who cannot be
self-supporting and who lack power of self-protection against
the grossest forms of exploitation; the second need is to
introduce new methods of supervisory control and humane
protection and training in the care of those who are not normal