Lessons In Practical Hygiene For Use In Schools

Author : Alice Ravenhill
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ISBN 13 : 9781331523888
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Practical Hygiene for Use in Schools (Classic Reprint) written by Alice Ravenhill and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lessons in Practical Hygiene for Use in Schools This book is tho work of a practical teacher and the outcome of strong conviction and of varied experience. Miss Ravenhill is convinced that, by means of a wisely directed education, the community must be permeated by a clearer understanding of the conditions which determine healthy growth and subsequent adult efficiency in national life. With a view to the diffusion of this knowledge, she has long been engaged in training teachers in hygiene. By her lectures and by her personal influence, she has done much to draw public attention to the far-reaching importance of tho study to which this book is an introduction. By the nature of the case, education is for the most part a conservative thing. It is tenacious of precedent, and prone to conventional points of view. Its main business is to link together the successive generations of men and to secure the continuity of their social life. When, therefore, a great change takes place in men's way of thinking about their place and work in the world, there is always, sooner or later, a conflict in educational ideas. Now studies assert their claims; old studies defend their place. Eventually, after a long struggle, things come into a new focus and the relative importance attached to the different studies is changed. At the present time, educational ideas are passing through one of these periods of change. The underlying cause of this change is the scientific movement in modern thought. One result of that movement has been to throw a new emphasis upon the physical side of education. People realize, more vividly than heretofore, the interdependence of mind and body. Their eyes are opened to the fact that unhealthy conditions of living are a drain upon national strength. Thus the word education has insensibly gained a wider meaning. The work done in schools, so far from being the whole of national education, is only a part of it and not in all circumstances the most significant or fruitful part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.