less-whole

Updated: June 11, 2025

Even in the case of the teacher who does understand the child's difficulty and consequently permits written instead of oral recitations, there is a constant feeling of inability on the part of the child, a knowledge of being less-whole than those about him, which saps the self-confidence so necessary to proper mental development and normal progress.

Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue - Stammering, Its Cause and Cure