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Show BODY AS WELL AS BRAIN Aim of Modern Educators Now Is to Promoto the Health of the Child. It Ib no longer sufficient that Hchool shall not Interfere with tho health of the child; It must positively promoto It, asserts Dr. Woods Hutchinson. The schoolroom should be tolerated in bo far as it makes for hoalth, and not ono whit farther. Growth is the chief and only important business of th child; and tho duty of education 1b to anslat that growth. Whatsoever la more than this In It, come'.h of evil. Tho school ought to bo, and mUBt bo made,, the wholesomeBt and healthiest health-iest place In the world for tho child. Tho old education concerned Itself: solely with the mind of the child, and the only part of Wb body that It toofc into account at all was the brain-bulb at tho upper end of him. The now education edu-cation considers the wholo child, and proposes to develop all his powen bodily, mental and moral. A healthy, happy, well-taught childhood for every ev-ery child born into the community Is Its aim nothing more, nothing less!' No country which is contented with leBB can call itself civilized. The child Is our beat crop; tho one for which, in fact, all others are rained; and no money, no time, no onergy, intelligently in-telligently spent upon its cultivation, can be wasted. |