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A MONTHLY MAGAZINE

DEVOTED TO

The Science, Art, Philosophy and
Literature of Education

FRANK HERBERT PALMER, Editor

VOLUME XXXI

SEPTEMBER, 1910-JUNE, 1911

BOSTON

THE PALMER COMPANY

120 BOYLSTON STREET

1911

Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature

VOL. XXXI

of Education

SEPTEMBER, 1910

No. I

Instruction of Exceptional Children in the New York City Public Schools

ANDREW W. EDSON, ASSOCIATE CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS

I

N all probability the most striking phase of modern education is the effort to educate and train children who are a little out of step with the masses. The problems to be worked out in the administration of the public school system in every large city are especially perplexing in New York City, owing to the rapidity of growth of the city, the congestion of population in certain quarters, and

the many nationalities to be educated.

In considering these problems, certain facts have had to be accepted and certain principles of action adopted. Among them are the following: education is the right of every childthe physically and mentally handicapped, the truant and delinquent, as well as the normal child; the state is under obligations to provide an education for all; special efforts should be directed toward making exceptional children happy, selfrespecting, and self-supporting; the cost of education is a productive expenditure of money rather than a charity; and it is economical as well as humanitarian to protect the helpless from want, the irresponsible from ignorance and vice, the family from an unusual burden, and the state from an increase of the helpless and criminal classes.

The main reason for establishing classes in the public

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