Are These Better Than Slums?
Professor R. C. Garry, who has been so successful in broadcasts to schools, proposes the sort of educational suggestion that make even me long to go back to school. Here are some of the things that he suggests should be taught to children. Show them how their own saliva reacts on starch.
Teach them the facts of circulation by palpitating their pulses and let them listen to their hearts through a stethoscope. The examination of a drop of human blood has a vividness and reality quite absent from the contemplation of a jar of ox-blood. The respiratory system offers great opportunities. Have the “tough guy" of the class show off . his chest expansion by means of cyrtometer tracings. Why should children be taught more about flies’ eyes than about their own? Professor Garry does not believe that study of their own bodies will make children morbid. Medical students do not become afraid of imaginary diseases when studying anatomy or biology, but only when they go on to pathology and surgery.
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1938, Page 2
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175Are These Better Than Slums? Northern Advocate, 8 January 1938, Page 2
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