Dr. Evans' How to keep well; (1917) (14747540446)

Identifier: drevanshowtokee00evan (find matches)
Title: Dr. Evans' How to keep well;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, William Augustus, 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Hygiene Sanitation
Publisher: New York, Pub. for Sears, Roebuck and co. by D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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the body between seven and seventeen are as important asthose in the mind. If it is necessary for the welfare of society that this enor-mous educational machine should be supported to train the mind is it logicalthat the body should be wholly uncared for? If it be argued that that canbe left to the parent, the home and the child the answer is that education canbe left to the same agencies. When education is left to these groups unaided the percentage of unfitminds increases though many minds come out all right. Is it not logicalto assert that when the physical side is left to the same agencies unaided thepercentage of the unfit is increased, even though a great many come outall right? Under a better system is it not probable that we shall get after a while 1234 HOSPITALS—SCHOOLS a better idea of what is physically right just as our present standard of atrained mind is much higher than that of half a century ago ? If the mind and the body are Siamese twins and the developed, trained
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Illinois Dept. of Public Instruction. Fig. 500.—McCabe Drinking Fountain Attached to aPump. twin is being held back by the untrained one shall we bring up the halt oneor shall we lame the other one? There is no use trying to run the halves of the machine at differentspeeds. Education must not go back. The child is an egoistic parasite. The schools train him out of egoism andsomewhat out of parasitism. Eubbing up against other children gives him achance to find himself. The demand for efficiency is increasing. The public schools will findthat the burden put on them in the future will be much increased. This half of the machine cannot slow down. The other half must bespeeded up. That is not possible when the years from seven to seventeen arenot made use of for the perfection of the machine. The condition to which it can be brought by home and parental and in- SCHOOLS 1235 dividual care will not allow of any more speeding up. It is like trying to use atspeed ball bearings where two-ten