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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.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
