PHYSICAL TRAINING.
VALUE IN THE SCHOOLS. Aa the Education Department is not this year holding " refresher course" camps for school teachers, such as have been held in the past with the object of making them efficient physical instructors, Mr. H. Longworth, chief physical instructor, is making a tour of the Dominion and addressing assemblies of teachers in the various centres. In this manner he hopes to be able to get into closer touch with teachers and discuss with them the great benefits of physical training and its effects on the adult life of the child. Mr. Longworth, who addressed a meeting of teachers in Palmerston North recently, is most enthusiastic in the advocacy of making the young fit. Children who are not physically fit, he says, cannot work at their school lessons as they should. Physical neglect in adolescence means, almost inevitably, a frame undeveloped, under-sized and unsuited to the hurly-burly of modern conditions of life. Games should be encouraged and every form of suitable outdoor recreation made possible for the growing child.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17844, 27 July 1921, Page 6
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