Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Volumes 9-10

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University of Chicago Press, 1910 - Education
 

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Page 9 - What shall it profit a child if he gain the whole world of knowledge and lose his health, or what shall he give in exchange for his health...
Page 38 - If I were asked to say whether more physical deterioration was produced by alcohol or by defective teeth, I should unhesitatingly say — defective teeth.
Page 11 - Neglect of anything essential for health in construction, materials, arrangement, and equipment of the country-school building is an educational sin of omission, if not a social and civic crime. The expense of the things which really affect the health of the pupil in school should be estimated in terms of child life, child health, and human efficiency, and only for convenience be reduced to dollars and cents.
Page 76 - ... and, as Plato says, we are not to fashion one without the other, but make them draw together like two horses harnessed to a coach.
Page 46 - The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Page 81 - Physical education is for the sake of mental and moral culture and not an end in itself. It is to make the intellect, feelings, and will more vigorous, sane, supple and resourceful. It should make for control and keep the body under and make it a servant and not a master. Practical ethics of body and soul is the core of all The psychologizing of athleticism is now its crying need.
Page 77 - must needs be vigorous in order to obey the soul: a good servant ought to be robust. . . The weaker the body, the more it commands; the stronger it is, the better it obeys.
Page 73 - ARTICLE VI Meetings. — The Society shall hold its annual meetings at the time and place of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. Other meetings may be held when authorized by the Society or by the Executive Committee.
Page 72 - The last four shall be under bond in such sum as the Society may designate, for the faithful discharge of his duties. Section 2. The president and secretary shall be ex-officio members of all committees, except the auditing committees.
Page 77 - A SOUND mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them will be but little the better for anything else.

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