Education Provision for the Mentally Retarded Children of the Omaha Public School System

No less dramatist than William Shakespeare employed the buffoon, the idiot to add zest or ribaldry for a certain group of his audience, or for the advancement of other technical schemes in his masterpieces. Throughout literature, the idiot, the feeble-minded has been characterized usually as an object of derision or magnified to the proportions of a horrible monster. From the succession of foolish court jesters, feigned or otherwise, of France and Britain down through the centuries to the present-day rural bumpkin, there is a universal recognition of the existence of human beings of various conspicuous degrees of inferior mental power. Many communities and nations have pondered upon and dealt with, in divers ways, this problem of their feebleminded citizens whether of Falstaffian stature or of the Gael's "God's Little White Fools."

Grantor dc:publisher

Creighton University

Year dc:date.issued

1949

Author dc:creator

• Yates, Margaret M.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kennedy, Leo R.

• Omaha, Nebraska -- History
• Nebraska -- History
• Education

Statement dc:rights

• A non-exclusive distribution right is granted to Creighton University and to ProQuest following the publishing model selected above.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/74267

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:cdr.creighton.edu:10504/74267