The Schoolboy's Paradise

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1159, 1 December 1904, Page 3

The Schoolboy's Paradise

Fbance is the schoolboy's paradise. Cor' poral punishmont has long boen abolished in the lay schools, and most of the olorical Bchools, where the rod is still regarded as a corrective, have been closed. Now the schoolboy's lot is to be mado still happior. .If ho grows too fast for his years he is to bo put in special classes, where he is not expected to do the same amount of work as his fellows. Experiments made at the Lycee Louis Legrand, where the boys aro regulatly weighed and measured every throo months, have shown that a youth who grows too fast lobcs mental aotivity. lo rcotify this they are put on speoial diet, and are given fewer lessons to do. So successful has tho plan provod that by order of tho Minister for Publie Education it is to bo applied to a largo number of public schools. The headmaster of a well-known sohool at Netile has gone a stop still farther, Careful observation has led him to the conclusion that a boy's food has much to do with his success in studying, and that while ono kind may bo good for ono boy it may hamper another. He has, in consequence, had all tho boys medically exainiuod, and placed them ij four different groups according to their physical and mental temperament, and he gives them the food bost euited to their state of health,