“HOLD YOUR HEAD UP”
ADVICE TO SCHOOL CHILD
Great stress is laid on the importance of good posture in a revised syllabus of physical training for schools issued by the Board of Education (says the London “Daily Telegraph”). “Correct posture,” it is stated, is necessary for good health and for complete physical development. It makes the body more useful, skilful, and beautiful. It helps to produce self-respect, and therefore sejf-confid-ence.
“The child who has learnt to stand straight ancl hold his head up has, other things being equal, a better chance of making his way in life than his stooping, weak-kneed brother.” It is pointed out that in many schools as many as 75 per cent, of the children not only stand badly, but have one or more of the minor deformities commonly associated with malpositions. In a preface, Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer at the Board of Education, records the conviction of the Board that the development, of good physique is a matter of national importance vital to the welfare and even the survival of the race.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 December 1933, Page 2
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