{"product_id":"alonzo-potter-education-of-idiots-an-appeal-to-the-citizens-of-philadelphia-classic-reprint-9780265003909","title":"Education of Idiots: An Appeal to the Citizens of Philadelphia (Classic Reprint)","description":"Excerpt from Education of Idiots\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\/\u0026gt;Hence the necessity of special schools, where the training required by their peculiar and forlorn condition, can be applied, regularly and systematically. The benefit of these schools will not accrue to their own inmates alone. The attention which they will be sure to command, the impres sion which will be made, when they restore to the world as decent and respectable persons  pupils, whom they received, as moping, muttering, grovelling idiots; the in quiries which will be instituted, respecting the causes of Idiocy, its extent and proper treatment, all these will be incidents to a well conducted school, and will be full fraught with blessing, to multitudes who can never directly share in its instructions and discipline. Two facts espe cially, will gain general publicity, and they are facts which once known and universally respected, would terminate much the largest part of the evils that flow from this source. The first of these facts, already well-established, but destined to receive new illustration from every effort which is made in this behalf, is, that Idiocy is not an arbi trary visitation of Providence, but one of the ways in which a righteous Law-giver avenges transgression. In too many cases, it is a legacy bequeathed by ancestors to their descendants, and can be traced directly back to their vices or their recklessness. It thus charges every parent with new responsibility, and indicates how fearful must be their guilt, who can deliberately in?ict on their innocent pos terity, so sore an evil.","brand":"Forgotten Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53729401536854,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780265003909_1.jpg?v=1781777316","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/alonzo-potter-education-of-idiots-an-appeal-to-the-citizens-of-philadelphia-classic-reprint-9780265003909","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}