FEBRUARY SCHOOL DAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19550, 1 February 1927, Page 8

FEBRUARY SCHOOL DAYS.

Sir , —To come down to brass tacks, wbfct is tluo use of anything at all without health ? To my mind, after long experience and deep studies in gathering until, many of the physical breakdowns in early middle-life and before that period are directly traceable to oppression in the matter of overstudy in the early years. The school-day is live hours and homowork. Yet what a cry is made by grownups about "working overtime." Of course overtime is good for the child. Lunch during the summer months is a much mora delicate matter for the adult—but 01 course the child can te'ie his bit in his schoolbag and wash it down from "the tank with his enamelled cup or from the bubble-fountain. Ifc haa the chill taken off, anyway—and tho uneaten lunch can be thrown in the rubbish banket, or emptied out on the way home. This all helps to harden tlie child, so X would recommend the same spartan treatment for tho chairman of the Education Board and all those who fegree with him. Keep thcira away from the beaches, bowling greens, etc., and let their lunches ba what they have carried with them. It will ba at least four hours old, an<3 far a modest thirat-quenchor, let them tap the neare&f; hydrant,. They might mistake it for luke warm weak tea at present, Pabxist.