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Excerpt from Health and the School: A Round Table
Recent years have witnessed notable advances in our comprehension of the conditions governing the health of children. We have been astonished at the number of defects found among them; we have received new convictions in regard to provision for air and play; and we have become acquainted with better methods for warding off disease.
Nor is our attitude on this whole matter by any means so theoretical as it was even a few years ago. Indeed, the extent to which all this knowledge is nnding application, in communities of all sorts, is striking. Herbert Spencer's charge that people were generally far more interested in the health and general care of their horses, cattle, and hogs than in that of their children will hardly hold much longer. And it seems likely that good health will soon rank first, in the minds of teachers and parents, among the things that make up a good education.
The realization of this promise will mark a revolution in the practice of the schools; for, in times past, they have really, if not consciously, sacrificed health for the acquisition of knowledge. Training institutions for teachers have even been among the worst offenders in this respect.
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