Secrets of the Wild Child 2

Genie's new celebrity status marked the beginning of a debate that would intensify over time. How should her case be handled? James Kent's plan was the first to be adopted. He believed Jeannie could get better if she were allowed to form relationships. And he was encouraged when she started to do so. Up until one particular day, Jeannie didn't seem to respond in a special way to my coming or going. At the end of our session. Then one day, when I left, her expression changed from sort of happy to say it indicate that there was some sadness in the separation for her. And it was the first indication that I had. We were beginning to form this relationship. I thought it long she had the capacity to form attachments. She had the capacity to learn. She had the capacity to get better. By the end of May, something had happened to add to the hopes for genius future. It was a breakthrough that everyone had waited for. 

It was captured on videotape by Jean butler, Genie's special education teacher. Here in a classroom at children's hospital, butter is teaching Genie to tie her own shoes. Butler is about to tell Jeannie, you do it, and we can tell doctor Kent what you can do. Listen to Jeannie's reaction. Then we have to have that picture. Doctor Ken, huh? Jeannie said the word doctor. It was one of more than a hundred words she knew by that spring. Listen to another. She was difficult to understand, but Jeannie was repeating words. Jeannie was beginning to talk. I could tell, as all of us could, just looking at her, that there was a lot to Genie. And that what we had to do was to make sure we gave her opportunities to express, find a way to take what was latent and express it or somehow then acquire it because the potential just seemed so great. For the first time in her life, Genie seemed to be thriving. 

Her mental and physical growth since coming to children's hospital was obvious. Jamie's progress gave birth to a daring hope. She might fully recover and science might learn how. Her doctors even publicly predicted success. Their confidence was an eerie echo of a moment from the past, and echo of another case like genies that preceded hers by nearly 200 years. The case began in 1800, when citizens of this region in southern France discovered a remarkable creature who had crept out of the nearby forest. He was animal and behavior, human inform, mute and naked. He was a wild child. He would be known as Victor, and this statue would be erected to mark his entry into civilization. Citizens in the village were Victor was discovered, guessed he was 12 years old. His food preferences, his lack of speech, and the scars on his body indicated he had been in the wild for most of his life. Victor's story intrigued historian and psychologist Harlan lane. Around the time doctors in Los Angeles were following Genie's case, laying was in France, tracking Victor story. 

Shortly after the boy was captured, a biology professor took a very careful look at her name with bona tare. Former tale tells the story of tremendous indifference to cold that Victor had. One day he took him and took off all his clothes and the boy was thrilled to have his clothes taken off. And he started leading him into the outdoors, and it was surrounded by snow at that time. And Victor far from protesting was filled with joy. He gave out cries of joy and pulled bone tear out the doors and wanted to get out into the snow. Another occasions he was actually out in the snow, bear naked leaping about throwing the snow in the air, eating snow. Bona tag concludes, and I think we have to conclude that our sensitivity to temperature is very much influenced by our life experiences. Word of the wild child traveled north to Paris, where the first anthropological society had just formed. It was the end of the age of enlightenment, a time of enormous discovery and debate. Victor walked into the middle of a raging debate as timing was incredible. 

The question was, what makes us human? What separates man from the beast? Is it human appearance? Well, anthropological expeditions were returning with a wide variety of races and Parisians were not so clear on human appearance. Is it walking upright? But orangutans walked upright. Isn't language. First reports were that Victor had no language. Then again, perhaps you could learn some. In any case, philosophers anatomists and their ilk were convinced that careful study of Victor could finally answer the question, what is it that makes us human? With Victor, Parisians had a chance to see human nature stripped of society and culture. This was a situation no one would set out to create on purpose. It was therefore referred to as the forbidden experiment. Scientists in Paris quickly summoned Victor from the South of France. Although Victor could hear, they brought him to this school, the national institute for the deaf. Okay, we're at the national institute for the deaf and it happened right here. 

The gardener from rodez brings the wild boy right through here into the courtyard and I guess they were expected and the director, the abbe sea cow comes out and come on, they would meet about here, see Cal comes out, and what does he see? Not a nice little bourgeois deaf kid in the school uniform. His new pupil, but a raging, spitting, snarling, filthy. Savage. Defecating where he is urinating where he is, biting, covered with scars, long hair, wadded, yellow teeth, long fingernails, a savage, she kind of never seen anything like that in his life. So he backs off, what's he gonna do? Idea. He's just hired a young physician from the military hospital up the street. Followed by the name of Jean Marc Itau. So he calls. Eat down. Eat down. Jean Marc guitar was a 26 year old medical student who was ready to make his mark. He saw the wild boy as an opportunity. Well, he tarred was an