ABSTRACT
Re-education involves the same principles as other kinds of education, and in no particular do the general principles of education and re-education differ. It is well recognized that both the general and special education of any individual are matters of habit formation. Certain differences exist in the various kinds of education, but these differences are relatively slight as compared with the similarities. In general the difference between what is called education and that called reeducation is a difference of direction or aim, or that of material. In education habits are formed on the basis of the instinctive tendencies of an individual who is endowed with a normal number and a normal quality of parts. When the individual who is normal loses some of his parts, or the parts become useless because of distant disturbances, it becomes necessary to utilize other parts as replacements if the individual is to be self-supporting or an active participant in the life of his community. The original instinctive tendencies, which depend upon the integrity of the parts assumed to be destroyed, cannot now be used in the formation of new habits, and other instinctive tendencies must be utilized. In some cases another part of the body is made use of.
