Prairie Years. E-book. Formato PDF Leta Stetter Hollingworth   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

As for me, I think I could care above all things to have my life absorbed by human beings-just to give as much as I have to people. I believe that they are as willing and eager to absorb one's life as lawns are, or kettles or hats. I conceive of it as terrible to lie at the end of the world on one's death bed, and look back only upon rows and rows of shining kettles or "good investments" or medicine bottles, emptied in the interests of one's "health." I have that sinking feeling when I think of it. Such things seem to me so pitifully futile, but there is more comfort in the thought of life being absorbed by life again. So I should prefer to give what I have to human beings, since give it somewhere we all must.

The Psychology of Subnormal Children. E-book. Formato PDF Leta S. Hollingworth   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

When the growth of the movement to establish special classes for children who are subnormal in intelligence there has grown the demand for teachers who are trained in the psychology and education of such children. It is my hope that this volume, which consists of lectures given for some years past in Teachers College, Columbia University, may in a measure serve the purpose of such teachers. It is addressed primarily to them, rather than to clinicians, for whom the majority of books on this subject have been hitherto especially prepared. The discussion is, therefore, confined largely to the educational psychology of mentally deficient children, with relatively slight emphasis on methods of identification and diagnosis. The illustrative matter, also, relates to the achievement of defectives, rather than to their clinical features.There has been a very conscientious effort to base the discussion soundly upon the results of psychological research, as set forth in the references appended. The lists of references are selected, not complete, except in the case of chapters on the psychology of development and learning. On these subjects the purpose has been to refer to all published experimental research bearing directly upon defectives.