The Montessori Method and the Education of the High Grade Moron

The more one has to deal with the great problem of mental defect and its problems the less anxious one is to say anything at all. One always feels that the really helpful speakers at Mental Deficiency Conferences have been brought there under the persuasion of a revolver. The reason is because people who are doing things or trying to do things are apt to be very diffident and reticent until they are certain. By that time they are busy with some fresh experiment from which they are reluctant that their attention should be distracted.