Edouard Seguin Quotes

France, Physician
January 20, 1812 – October, 28, 1880.

Édouard Séguin was a physician and educationist born in Clamecy, Nièvre, France. He is remembered for his work with children having cognitive impairments in France and the United States.

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.

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