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of school means that they have on the average four years in which
to be bored and discouraged, and to seek for outlets along antisocial
paths. Many of these children are incapable of profiting
by psycho-therapy. If, by the age of nine, they are set towards
delinquency, it is difficult and expensive to reclaim them. The
restoration of these children to an appropriate social outlook may
take years. Most of them present problems which need never
have arisen if their limitations had been ascertained and their
environment adapted to them at a much earlier age.- The importance
of early ascertainment and the provision of suitable education
cannot be overstressed.