‘The only freind I have got’

Accommodating “Imbeciles”or the “Weak-Minded”

“…Education helped to protect individuals from harm, and it integrated individuals, socially and occupationally. Schooling taught vital social skills and provided the opportunity for fostering positive social relationships between adults and children (Anderson, 1983;Mair, 2016). Without an education acquired through schooling, the weak-minded struggled to cope with adult relationships, especially sexual ones, and did not know how to interpret or react to threatening or other nonbenign situations.…”