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Updated: May 25, 2025
The educator will have to take account of the state of the pituitary in estimating the normal intelligence, or influencing the abnormal or subnormal intelligence. As well will he have to consider the thyroid in the child whose conduct is refractory, even though his proficiency in his studies is excellent.
It will accordingly be well for us to carefully examine this term and its meaning. "Subnormal" means: "Beyond, above, or exceeding that which is NORMAL; extraordinary, inexplicable perhaps, but NOT supernatural."
That, though the occupations named are entirely normal to all well-ordered states, descendants of persons in those occupations tend to become "subnormal" so runs the cant of it something handicapped by that haphazard bullet of a lifetime since, fired to advance the glorious cause of foreign commerce, or the like. Mr.
I believe also that in patients with cerebral softening, infections such as pneumonia show a lower temperature range than in patients whose brains are normal. The Adrenals. In such destructive lesions of the adrenals as Addison's disease one of the cardinal symptoms is a subnormal temperature and impaired muscular power.
Where slavery has become bred into the bone, the standard of the normal becomes reduced so tremendously that the average of normals, the majority, are hopelessly inferior. In effect, they are really subnormal. So the ideal of our ideal statesman is bound to be defeated because of the inadequacy of his material.
War burns in the lesson of how little the careerist regards either the subnormal or supernormal. He condemns them all sooner or later to wholesale slavery and carnage. Is man then never to be the architect of his own destiny? Are we to surrender our faith in the future of our kind to the spectacle of a miserable species sentenced by its own nature to self-destruction?
These children are usually either mentally subnormal or handicapped by foreign birth and so unable to grasp the education which is being offered them. As soon as they are released the girls go to the factory, to the store, or to help with some one's baby or with the housework. No other places are open to them, and their possibilities in any place are few.
There is no hope whatever of growth, as long as they foresee they are going to fail." The futility of trying to "cram" an education into a subnormal child has never been better expressed than in the statement quoted above.
In this most amiable of moods she dined with her husband, and was so vivacious that, looking at her over his glass of port, he thought how little she had changed since, years before, she had first affected his subnormal pulse. Together they wandered over the lawns, and he showed the improvements wrought since her last visit.
There is always a tendency for the stupid to stick to the beaten path. Intelligence generally means individuality and divergence. On the other hand, the stupid and subnormal are moved much more directly by instincts and emotions. Their lack of imagination, poor perceptions and want of reasoning or comparing power, make their self-control weak.
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