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Show Psychology and Psychiatry Keys to the Formation Forma-tion of a Super-Race By CHARLES V. TAYLOR, Supt. Public Instruction, Nebraska. KOUmi is known of psychology am mental processes today to ijJ make possible production of a super-race of men and women if Jjj proper means of controlling the environment and instruction of children were available. Principles of psychology and psychiatry applied to human problems of child growth is the key to the situation. In the schools of the future, the problem chikL, whether subnormal or Supernormal, wiii oecarel'ully studied, advised and controlled according to principles of psychological analysis. The nerve systems of the present generation probably are not developing de-veloping in harmony with the new times fast enough to meet present-day needs. One result of this is a continually increasing number of mentally unbalanced youths. Numbers of them fly off on t;:ngents of hu- I man conduct and commit all sorts of emotional or brain-storm crimes. .Society is going to be compelled to adopt some means of protecting Itself from this peculiar nervous product of modern times from the large numbers of emotional crimes and moral delinquencies on the part of youthful criminals now so prevalent. It is easy to imagine a time when numbers of young people will go out into adult life with definite restrictions on their personal liberties, under a sort of parole or guardianship relation to some individual in the , community. The danger of interfering with individual liberties produces one serious se-rious objection to any scheme of this kind, but individual liberties always al-ways have been curtailed in the last analysis when the need of the larger social group seemed to demand it. The schools of the future will provide adequate psychiatric and psychological staffs for the observation and advice of all children as individuals. indi-viduals. Vocational guidance, and perhaps some measure of vocational control, will be part of the educational system. As much attention will be paid to mental health and balance as to mere learning processes. |