Show CHANGES IN SCHOOLS Declaring that our school system needs changing a writer In to the Forum says there can be no logical relationship between a system of free education provided for all the people and compulsory under the law and a system of ot higher education education tion from which only a small num nu- number ber bet can ever er hope to benefit bene t. t He maintains that a group of broadly experienced business men would make the following suggestion as asto asto asto to reforms in education in the elementary I 1 A course laws and habits of health designed to lay a firm foundation of physical cal cat endurance for the future de demands demands mands of life and work and pro pro- provide provide vide Tide an understanding of the so so- social social social cial and economic value of a healthy body and how to keep in good physical condition 2 A broad comprehensive course in vocational economic guidance with emphasis on the proper proper selection of a life work the essential elements of success at ata ata a a. life Job and the management of ofa ofa a life liCe income 3 A course in the of democratic citizenship de do- designed designed signed to produce a quality of en en- enlightened enlightened lightened civic conduct and political political political ical thought that would raise the standard of community life 4 1 A course in the modern so social so- so social cial arts with emphasis on culture and good manners the cultivation atlon of a taste for good music beauty wholesome entertainment and re reo refined re- re refined fined social conduct and md the en en- encouragement encouragement of any special artistic tendencies 5 A course in ethics with em em- emphasis emphasis emphasis on individual integrity hon bon honesty honesty esty respect for the rights of ot oth oth- others others ers and the creation of ot a standard of moral values Since health is the thing most essential to the happiness and suc suc- success success cess of a normal life Ute to in young people an understanding of the laws of ot health should be re reo regarded re- re regarded as a primary function on and and duty of public education Every young man and young youn woman should learn from competent in In- instructors Instructors how to keep In good phys phs physical ical Icat condition They should learn the plain unadulterated truth bout about sex and the physical responsibilities responsibilities of ot Individuals to each oth oth- other other er and to their families and note not not be be e left in ignorance until they find out at the hazard of ot their health and reputations To carry out a far far- reaching course in physical train train- training training ing ng the public schools need physical physical physical cal directors who are experts in inthe Inthe inthe the scientific principle of health and nd not merely experts in games and contests Athletic contests have been developed to such a de de- degree degree gree in American schools that they threaten to eclipse the real essen essentials of ot physical training Our Out young people are to tc win games and are not even nor normally mally many trained for permanent phys phys- physical physical physIcal ical values What our committee of business men would want to ac accomplish accomplish through a course in health L would be not merely the sturdy de de- development of a few contesting ath athletes letes nor the medical care of sub subnormal normal children from poor and neg neg- neglected neglected neglected homes but the scientific physical training of all children and particularly the normal ones from whom the rank and file tile ot ol olour our future citizens must come |