Show 30 crafts development of neuromuscular coordination training in music and dramatics etc all of which are definitely educational Likewise instruction in arts and the program of recreation for young people and adults outside of the playground consists largely of educational activities Recreation deserves public support because of its contribution to the educational offering of a city provision of supervised recreation is closely related to the work of the schools Education and recreation are indivisible since life is "not a composite art made up by adding the art of play to the art of work or the art of leisure to the art of labor or the art of the body to the art of the mind or the art of recreation to till the art of education" The contribution to safety Recreation tends to augment the services of public safety It is also recognized that active recreation promotes health Therefore which in itself is protection against sickness Recreation since recreation features serve as a means of protection their support There may be assumed to be a public responsibility is in the United States and in other countries of the world a community recrea- tion many great need for some type of This was strongly emphasized in the 11 addresses Lawrence P Jacks Education Through Recreation (New York: Harper and Brothers 1932)7 p- - 1- - |