PHYSICAL EDUCATION
We have been slow in Britain to recognise the need for a more comprehensive education of the human bodv than that provided by team games writes Mr E. B. Castle headmaster of Leighton Park School. Bu. public interest is now aroused and those anxious to see a more physicallyfit nation are seeking for the means to this end. An obvious means is to arouse in the young person himself a consciousness of the needs and capacities of his body We have no hesitation in placirig before him moral and intellectual standards. Why not place before him physical standards too? To some extent tht sanctity of cricket and football have stood in the way: th* game's the thing—God fulfils Himself in many ways, but chiefly through cricket and football Games must, indeed, remain an important part of physical education: but not the wholr of it.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23887, 15 August 1939, Page 17
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146PHYSICAL EDUCATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 23887, 15 August 1939, Page 17
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