/lit/ - Literature

>reads anyone even once

> I do not think that the retarded should be ~allowed~ to come ~near~ children.
>Children cannot deal, and should not have to deal, with the very tragic spectacle of a handicapped human being.
>When they grow up, they may give it some attention, if they're interested, but it should never be presented to them in childhood, and certainly not as an example of something ~they~ have to live down to.

Was she right, /lit/???

>"Subnormal children and on the handicapped… It’s the attempt to bring everybody to the level of the handicapped. It includes the mentally retarded, subnormal children who are not able to learn. So at the end of spending thousands of millions of the tax payers’ dollars, you’re left with a half-idiot who may learn to read and write. May!" - Ayn Rand

is she right?

>I do not think that the retarded should be ~allowed~ to come ~near~ children. Children cannot deal, and should not have to deal, with the very tragic spectacle of a handicapped human being. When they grow up, they may give it some attention, if they're interested, but it should never be presented to them in childhood, and certainly not as an example of something ~they~ have to live down to.

- Ayn Rand, The Age of Mediocrity, Q & A Ford Hall Forum, April, 1981

Is she correct?