ABSTRACT
'Justice requires/ wrote C. Burt just before his death, 'not that every child should have the same type of teaching but that the methods and curricula should be varied according to the varying needs of each individual. The pattern of instruction he receives should be deliberately chosen and adjusted to fit the pattern of abilities with which the pupil is endowed.' Remedial education as it exists has developed, in various guises, because there was a need for it. At every age after the earliest there are numbers of pupils in the schools who are missing out and failing to make progress, often through no fault of their own or their teacher's. One of the most obvious general defects of the present position is the haphazard and variable nature of almost every aspect of so-called remedial provision. In some areas social claims to inclusion in remedial schemes are as much regarded as educational ones.
