TEACHING HEALTH
Much of the sickness and debility which we see nowadays justifies Samuel Butler's doctrine that to be ill is a crime. But a movement is now on foot in England to "teach health " in the schools. The official hope is that older children will be given each week periods of health study of a kind eminently personal and practical. The separation of physical training and games and domestic subjects into water-tight compartments of tho curriculum is to be avoided, and all that concerns the making of a sound body for a sound mind is to be unified.
In all this, which is wise enough, the most potent influence, we suspect, will be found in the old idea of schools that it is a point of honour to be fit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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131TEACHING HEALTH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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