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Edouard Séguin
(20 Jan 1812 - 28 Oct 1880)
French-American psychiatrist who opened the world's first school for the severely mentally retarded.
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Science Quotes by Edouard Séguin (1 quote)
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.
— Edouard Séguin
Quoted in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
See also:
- 20 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Séguin's birth.