"Educable" Quotes from Famous Books
... human nature is undoubtedly the most plastic part of the living world, the most adaptable, the most educable. Of all animals, it is man in whom heredity counts for least, and conscious building forces for most. Consider that his infancy is longest, his instincts least fixed, his brain most unfinished at birth, his powers of habit-making and habit-changing ... — Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... of backward and feeble-minded children, so long as these remain in an educable stage, shall be the duty, as at present, of the ... — Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders • W. H. Triggs, Donald McGavin, Frederick Truby King, J. Sands Elliot, Ada G. Patterson, C.E. Matthews |