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why we should not utiHze useful materials in education in place of 

 the useless. It is worthwhile recognizing too that education is 

 accomplished quite as efficiently through doing things as it is 

 through studying things. The motor areas of the brain are quite 

 as essential as foundation for its higher activities as are the sensory 

 areas. The activity of the garden, or the shop, or the kitchen, is 

 quite as educative as the reading lesson, or the arithmetic lesson. 

 In fact in early childhood the sensory training and the mot or activi- 

 ties are the things that need to be emphasized because it is during 

 the period of childhood that these brain areas must be developed if 

 ever they are going to achieve their maximum of efficiency. 



Book Reviews 



The Hygiene of the School Child, Lewis M. Terman. p. xvii + 

 417. Houghton Miffin Co. $1.65. 



This book is one that calls for superlatives. It hardly seems 

 possible to crowd so much well selected information into such brief 

 compass. The opening chapters on "The Physical Basis of Educa- 

 tion," "The General Laws of Growth" and "The Factors Influenc- 

 ing Growth" should be read and reread by every teacher and 

 parent. There are chapters on Disorders of Growth, Malnutrition, 

 Tuberculosis, Ventilation, Teeth, Nose and Throat, Hearing, 

 Vision, Voice, Sleep and Preventative Mental Hygiene. One of 

 the best features of the book is the bibliography appended to each 

 chapter. The author is evidently conversant with his materials 

 and writes in a forceful style. The book is novel in its utilization 

 of extensive statistical tabulations for instruction in hygiene. 



School Hygiene, by Fletcher D. Dresslar, pp. 369; The Mac- 

 millan Co. Price $1.25. 



Mr. Dresslar is a specialist in school hygiene and school sanita- 

 tion of the United States Bureau of Education. As such he is in 

 touch with all the movements that aim to improve the sanitary 

 conditions of the school throughout the country and for that 

 matter throughout the world. 



Chapters on Playgrounds, vSchool Baths, Humidity of the School 

 Room, Stuttering, Fatigue, Medical Inspection, Qualifications and 

 Duties of a School Janitor, make it apparent that here is a lot of 

 unusual reading matter and that at least the experts in school 

 management arc awake to new responsibilities and new opportuni- 



