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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...end nor to ignore its possibilities. THE PERSPECTIVE OP PURPOSE The Church needs to see the place of physical education in the whole program of growing the full person, to cease to think of it as a concession to the playing weakness of the child, as a mere fad of the times or as a bribe to catch youth. What, ...
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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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...end nor to ignore its possibilities. THE PERSPECTIVE OP PURPOSE The Church needs to see the place of physical education in the whole program of growing the full person, to cease to think of it as a concession to the playing weakness of the child, as a mere fad of the times or as a bribe to catch youth. What, then, should we do? First, help our people to understand what physical training means in the program of education today. Perhaps we will have to help ourselves to know this first. It means that, since most people have bodies, and since the higher life functions through this physical, we seek to follow nature's laws, the divine laws, in the orderly development of all the physical powers in their relation to the person who feels and thinks and wills and acts; and we find that whenever we follow these laws we are so in harmony with the growing young lives that they delight in what is being done. Youth plays because it is learning to live. Then we must seek to discover what are the peculiar responsibilities of the Church in relation to physical training, and how these are related to the functions of the family and the school. We may well try to develop in our communities the different responsibilities and try to secure a coordinated program in which each will bear its part. For the church any work of physical training, whether it be a gymnasium, athletic club, or play provision, must be under a purposeful program. At present it is something we do because we think it will pay, because it seems to be popular. Commonly, it is without conscious purpose toward the great plan of the Church to grow people into Christian character and toward usefulness in God's society. Many a fine plant represents a sad waste of money because no one has any real...
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