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He received into his school children before whom Pestalozzi, Rousseau, Herbart, and Froebel would have turned away in despair, and the study of their works certainly could not help Séguin to discover what he should do for them. So, even though he was well acquainted with all the educational books of his time he seems to have taken his medical knowledge as the real basis of his work.

In his book, The Child, Normal and Abnormal, there is a photograph of a child whom Séguin received into his school. This child was about