Education in Relation to Health

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 104, 9 March 1889, Page 3

Education in Relation to Health

i s Mr Daniel Clark, Superintendent of a the Asylum for the Insane, Toronto, « Ontario, man article upon this subject published in the Journal of In--5 sanity, concludes as follows : 1 ' Education should be conducted 3 somewhat as follows : 3 1. No teaching beyond object lessons up to 6ix years of age. j 2. Object lessons with reading and writing up to nine years of age. 3. Beading, writing, arithmetic in its four primary divisions and geography up to twelve years of age. 4. The preceding 1 with history and primary arithmetic and grammar up to fifteen years. 5. From this age such studies as will assist the girl in feminine duties, and the boy to some definite employment or profession. 6. No studies in the evening until after fifteen years of age. 7. Three hours daily of school time up to nine years of age, four houra to twelve and six hours until fifteen years of age. 8. After fifteen years of age studies to be intermingled with congenial and useful mechanical work. This to apply to both sexes.