This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...an instructor is to be healthy, and to be able to take care of his own health; many sickly and weak school-masters and mistresses prove the deficiency of these most important qualities, a deficiency which reacts very badly on the pupils.' The pupils, when first sent to school, should be in the best condition of health, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...an instructor is to be healthy, and to be able to take care of his own health; many sickly and weak school-masters and mistresses prove the deficiency of these most important qualities, a deficiency which reacts very badly on the pupils.' The pupils, when first sent to school, should be in the best condition of health, an indispensable requisite for competency to admission. The object of an ordinary school education being not only a preparatory training for perhaps ultimately the higher schools and universities, but eventually for physical fitness and intellectual ability in carrying out the social requirements of everyday life, we may consider one or two of the special requisites necessary for meeting with any natural, and at the same time possible, contingencies. With regard to boys, the fitting-up of a carpenter's shop will well repay the cost of any labour that may be bestowed upon it: under the superintendence of a competent person, the scholars may utilize their handiwork in the refitting of any woodwork, etc., in the school-building itself. Girls should think it in no way derogatory to take their turn in lending assistance and learning all that concerns the housekeeping and cooking departments. In all finishing schools and training colleges for women, there should be attached a model nursery, where instruction concerning the rational management of babies and infants may be imparted; the prevailing ignorance of the gentler sex on these matters is notorious, and is one of the chief causes of the unnecessarily high death-rate of children. Special Schools.--In the same way that the blind have special institutions for their educational welfare, all consumptive, rickety, and otherwise deformed children, must be sent to the respective schools for those comp...
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