PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

Evening Star, Issue 7647, 25 June 1888, Page 3

PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

TO THR EDITOR. Sir,—Knowing your zeal in the good cause of education, and a desire to see a race worthy the name of New Zealanders grow up in our Britain of the South, may I crave space for the following extract from a paper on the North American school system.—l am, etc., Skctukist. Dunedin, June 23. will read as a tonic after the dreary Kaikorai School heckling.—S. Dr Woods Hutchinson, in discussing tho physical basis of brain work, points out the desirability of the following modifications in our present common school system of education : Mst. That a playground for summer and a well-equipped gymnasium for winter should become indispensable adjuncts of every graded school building. 2nd. That for every hour of study the pupil should be expected. <tnd, if necessary, obliged to spend an equal time in vigorous physical exercise, if possible in the open air, for proficiency in which credit should be given him in his final average. 3rd. That a thorough knowledge of the laws of health and the physiology of exercise should be required of every teacher. 4th. That at least half of the teachers should be men, and should be selected with a view not only to their mental and moral, but also their physical fitness, to become the ideals of the rising generation."