The Educateur Model: A Theoretical Monograph
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle In the fading days of the summer of 1965, in our nation’s capital, an 11 year old boy was found spending his nights huddled in an apartment hallway with the only friend he knew-a stray dog. As millions of his young fellow citizens were beginning their zestful return to school, he devoted his full attention to the quest for survival, managed, somehow, through the haphazard handouts of food and drink from curious tenants and the affection of the dogs he had claimed as his only companions. Taken finally by police to a detention home, the now retarded boy’s story unfolded: Through his meager decade of life, begun in a broken home, he had ricocheted from court to welfare department, from mother to foster home, from institution to psychiatrist. He had been tested, but never treated, examined but never loved. So it was that he had long begun to spend his own love on dogs, not people [Mental Health of Children, 1965, p. 1].