[xmca] The Fundamentals of Defectology

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

I have been reading Volume 2 of the LSV CW. This material has quite a
sharp polemical edge to it. People might be interested in the following
passage (p. 83):

    "Achieving the religious miracle of mankind's eternal dream - giving
    sight to the blind and speech to the deaf - is the task of social
    education as it emerges in the greatest era of the final
    reconstruction of mankind."

and he goes on (somewhat letting the side down, by contemporary prejudices)

    "Thanks to eugenic measures, thanks to an altered social structure,
    mankind will arrive at different healthier conditions of life."

and just to complete the idea (which concerns the social character of
the psychology of people affected by some defect):

    "A blind person will remain blind and a deaf person deaf, but they
    will cease to be handicapped because a handicapped condition is only
    a social concept ... Blindness by itself does not make a child
    handicapped ... Blindness ... is a sign of the difference between
    his behaviour and the behaviour of others."

Interesting. stuff.
Andy

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