Principles and Methods of Physical Education and Hygiene (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Principles and Methods of Physical Education and Hygiene

Some apology is needed at this time for presenting to the public a work on physical education. So much has been said and written on the hygienic and medical aspects of school life that it would seem that little more needs to be said. Yet the thought of the present day on these particular aspects of education, thorough as it is in its details and scientific in its outlook, leaves much to be desired. To a great extent it lacks that well-balanced judgment which comes only from viewing school life in all its aspects, intellectual, social, and moral, as well as hygienic and medical.

The theory and practice of education suffer from a multitude of experts regarding the child and the school from a multitude of points of view. Some consider the child only as a thinking machine; others as possessing only a body. A well-balanced theory and practice must look at child life as a whole, at the various bodily activities developing in correlation with mental powers by the child entering fully into the practical duties of life through boyhood and youth to manhood.

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