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physical development, and under our present school and college systems this is sometimes secured, but the fact comes to us as forcibly that the abnormal man needs the same discipline even in greater degree. The duty for us lay in adapting it to meet the needs of the selected defectives.

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And here it must be realized once for all that the essential difference between manual training in our public-school system and the reformatory system is, first, in the classes of socicts furnishing the sui nul, second, the object desired.

In the public schools we have the plastic minds of eager, earnest youth, surrounded by desirable home influences, with the interest of the parent to aid tin- ehild to a full reali/ution ot the in sitv for education. Added to that is the interest ami natural curiosity of child lite as it watches the development of form, svm: :rom rru.le blocks of wood, el. i\ .< >i compact

mass of me: ming ne\\ hum and use as <i

ts of the cultivated mind and manual skill of the instructor.

This forms the actual incentive among children to pursue courses in manual training, but in the n-h.i m.itoi y system the