Excerpt from Games and Exercises for Mental Defectives
THE training possible with feeble-minded children ranges from that which will enable them "to cat a little less like an animal and make known their physical wants" - in the case of idiots - up to considerable efficiency in certain lines of manual and industrial work, for the morons. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic as formal studies are of but little value - only a small percentage of the very highest grades ever attaining enough efficiency to make use of them after instruction ceases.
Defectives of all grades lack energy and initiative. They do not therefore, of their own accord, develop the physical coordinations that normal children do. Accordingly they must be exercised along these lines if they are to attain to the highest of their limited capacity.
Not having the judgment and foresight, the ambition, of normal children, special efforts must be put forward to hold their interest while exercises for coordination are being given.
The most natural way to accomplish this is through the medium of games.
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