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(2) Evidence of a physically uneducated people: typical city crowds : 
bodies never taught to breathe, to sit, to walk, to stand, or to move as they 
should: boys entering public schools with remediable but unremedied 
physical defects : comparison between public school boys and post office 
boys of seventeen: bad effects of unthought-out physical exercises—neglect, 
in these, of elementary educational principles. 
(3) Physical education means the education of the whole ¢vstc or nature, 
ice. the whole man. No division of education into watertight compartments 
—body, mind, character. Reciprocal interaction of these on one another. 
(4) Methods to be adopted : 
(a) Raise status of subject, by creation in schools of recognised 
departments of physical education. 
(b) Appointment in every school of University graduate as Director 
of Physical Education. 
(c) The type of man wanted: personality, qualifications, training, 
experience. His duties. Relations with medical authorities and 
other members of the staff. 
(5) Difficulties: (a) Financial; (6) Personal—lack of adequate training 
facilities in Great Britain. 
Miss HELEN DRUMMOND (10.40). 
Freedom and rhythm in modern school work. 
Corrective work and posture training. 
The place of physical education in the school curriculum. 
The ‘ Keep Fit ’ movement. 
Recent developments in physical education in other European countries 
and their influence on work in this country. 
Mr. E. Major.—Physical recreation in relation to unemployment (11.0). 
In this country it is now generally acknowledged that a well-organised 
scheme of physical training, designed to develop a fit, vigorous and healthy 
people, is essential to the well-being of the nation. Hitherto systematic 
physical training has been mainly restricted to children and young people 
in attendance at schools and educational institutions. A comprehensive 
national scheme of training must, however, also provide facilities and 
training for young people of both sexes who are not in attendance at schools 
or other educational institutions. 
The provision of facilities and means for healthy physical recreation for 
unemployed adolescents, and unemployed men and women, is an essential 
and important part of a national scheme of physical training. Wisely 
directed physical recreation results in a healthy refreshment of mind and 
body and enables physical fitness, courage and hopefulness to be maintained, 
so that when an opportunity of work presents itself, the person concerned 
is ready physically and mentally to undertake it. 
Physical recreation schemes for the unemployed must be carefully and 
thoughtfully planned. They must be comprehensive in character and 
include, wherever possible, not only physical exercises, but also games, 
swimming and camping. 
Suitable indoor and outdoor facilities are essential and the ultimate 
success of any scheme of physical recreation depends largely upon the 
knowledge and personality of the leader. 
