HEALTH IN THE SCHOOLS.
“Children in all classes of the community are sent to .school at the statutory age Give or .six years) and subjected to the same mechanical discipline and wooden intellectual proves; cn masse. Instincts, impulses, nutrition, body condition, nervous system, personality, are, us a rule, largely ignored. The child is five, it must therefore enter the machine. Medina' inspection is now ordained, and as a result, one-third of the entrants arc found at once to be in greater need of tne physician than the teacher. They are referred to the doctor. This ts good, but not good enough. The only sensible way of dealing with all children at five or six years of age is to permeate the entire curriculum with the spirit and methods of bodily nurture: fresh air, sunlight graded exorcise l , rest, cleanliness, nutrition, coarse handwork, singing, objective lessons, co-operative- play, actions and habits. First, an act: then a habit; then a destiny. It is clear as daylight that there is no other way.”—Sir George Newman.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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172HEALTH IN THE SCHOOLS. Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1929, Page 7
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