The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12 The Health Billetin Septemher. 1927
OLD vs.
It used to be supposed that:
Children should obey blindly and unquestionably
every adult command.
The child should be forced to do
hard tasks for the sake of discipline
and will-training.
All hard tasks were valuable merely
because they were hard.
Making children do unselfish things
give them habits of unselfishness.
Child training should be a matter of
unchanging routine.
NEW METHODS IN CHILD TRAINING
From
Xow we belierc
that:
Obedience should be based on understanding.
The child's interest should lead him
to do the task, whether it is hard or
easy.
The child's attitude toward his tasks
makes them valuable or otlierwise.
Unselfish actions must bring satisfaction
to the child if he is to repeat
them.
Child ti-aining requires a constant readjustment
of routine and of ideas.
"Children,"
The Magazine for Parents.
EDUCATION THROUGH PHYSICAL EDUCATION
By JAMES EDWARD ROGERS,
Director National Physical Education .Service
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The need for physical education as
part of our .school system should be
most apparent but unfortunately it is
not. "NYe seem to forget that forty i>er
cent of the adults, men and women,
have physical defects, many of which
could have been remedied with a proper
physical education program. Over sixty
per cent of the school children have
physical defects which can be wiped
out through physical inspection, hygiene,
exercise, and physical training.
A physically fit person is more likely
to be efficient, happy and useful. A
physically fit nation is better prepared
to meet any emergency either from
within or without.
Physical Education Means Better
Citizenship
A physical education program means
health, personal and national vitality,
and a better citizenship. Physical education
is not merely building big
muscles and bodily strength. It does
this and more. It is the training for
bodily and mental health through
periodic physical examination, personal
laygiene, and a rational program of
active play and exercise. Health, cleanliness,
poise, rhythm, vitality, and
mental alertness are all objectives of
the true physical educational program.
Such a program includes physical fitness
tests and measure organic growth
and development. It means poise as
well as strength. It encourages mass
competition so that all may employ the
joys of active sport. It means periodic
physical inspection and examinations
to discover and correct remediable defects.
It helps in posture and health
service. It believes in recreational opportunities
for the industrial worker.
It promotes recreation for adults and
play for children.
Health Through Physical Education
Physical education is health education.
It is recreation. It is hygiene.
It is education in the truest sense.
"Mens sana in corpore seno" is as
needful today as yesterday. Under
present industrial conditions of living
and work it is more necessary tlaan in
the past that our children be guaranteed
the opportunity for physical activity
and exercise. The frontier has disappeared,
chores and errands havp
gone : we live in an age that deprives
the average boy and girl and adult of
the joys of the great out of doors. The
old tasks and pastimes of the home
and the shop have disappeared. Man