Weak-minded children are capable of being taught if proper methods are employed, but the hope of improvement diminishes with age¶
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q1 i? Weak-minded children can be taught when the proper methods are employed. → Paul Wilhelm Knuth 1909
q1 i? The hope of improvement in feeble-mindedness diminishes as age advances. → Paul Wilhelm Knuth 1909
Evidence¶
Paul Wilhelm Knuth 1909¶
Paul Wilhelm Knuth. (1909). Zur Erkennung jugendlichen Schwachsinns [review of Gustav Major's monograph]. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Pädagogik, 9, 425. none in text. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0063874
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The reviewer reports Major's position in this 1909 monograph: that "weak-minded children are capable of being taught if the proper methods are employed." The abstract offers this as the author's maintained claim, with no supporting data printed.
"The author maintains that weak-minded children are capable of being taught if the proper methods are employed."
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Related Claims¶
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Weak-minded children are capable of being taught if proper methods are employed, but the hope of improvement diminishes with age |
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Weak-minded children are capable of being taught if proper methods are employed, but the hope of improvement diminishes with age |
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1909 |
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