Perhaps certain mental aspects can be learned at one age under certain circumstances, but at later ages or under inappropriate conditions learning is impossible, or greatly impaired. The lack of early education of the feral children could mean that they could never learn. It is difficult to draw conclusions from studies on feral children; each case was very different - the background of the feral child, the goals of the experimenter and the method of teaching all have to be taken into account. Of the five children, Kaspar Hauser appeared to be the most successful in learning how to talk, but Kaspar had not been raised in the wild.
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Her face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, she sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of her feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm . . . . irresistibly propels her into the future to which her back is turned, while the pile of debris before her grows skyward. (Walter Benjamin, revised)
