Page:Labour and childhood.djvu/75

 imbecile and idiot class. So difficult is it to draw hard and fast lines, however, that it is impossible to claim on this or any other table that it is really accurate. Moreover, there are many children whom one can hardly place anywhere. For some of these new names have been invented, such as "higher-grade imbecile," "middle-grade imbecile," etc., and for others no name has been invented and no classification attempted.



The schools of 1870 were built for the normal child, and that was quite right, since the normal are the majority. A great mistake was made, however, when it was assumed that all children could be