HEALTH AND EDUCATION 
Ninth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of 
Education, Part I 
By THOMAS DENISON WOOD 
HE old idea that a healthy body contributes to a vigorous mind, which our fathers 
were wont with facile smoothness to quote in conversation but to ignore in practice, 
is one that ae stamped itself on gees teaching metho ne habeus a practical 
force whose limit is not yet reache e proposition was that a physically 
healthy child makes a desirable or promising pépi, but there was Hittle thought of duty 
toward the child not so fortunately endowed. is has given way to the view that a 
teacher to whom is intrusted the development of a child’s mind incurs zfso facto the duty 
of assisting in upbuilding his physical constitution. 
To give intellectual assent to this principle is one thing; to put it in practice quite 
another. Many teachers who concede its truth and thorou hly appreciate their responsi- 
bility in the matter lack the scientific knowledge necessary to its application. The quic ck- 
ening of the sense of duty to the child has progressed more rapidly than has the acquisition 
of knowledge necessary to its performance. Realizing this need Dr. Thomas Denison 
Wood, Professor of Physical Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, has 
produced a monograph entitled “Health and Education” that will, it is believed, be exact ly 
what is wanted by thousands of teachers. 
The treatment of the subject is most comprehensive. The author insists that if 
modern education is to fulfil in any hips degree its complex il aie to the child, to 
the home, and to society, provision must made in the school for more than mere ta 
vision and tea aching. He then Guiaeek: () the need for the Mpeetigation of the physical 
condition of the child on entering school and at intervals there eafter; (2) the features 
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teaching at every possible opportunity the principles of healthful living combin 1 
the ae ng of hy, ygienic habits in the pupil; (5) the provision that should be rinite in 
the school for physical tr: soleps A strong point is made of the methods by which the 
teacher should inform himself of the characteristics and needs of the individual child, as 
opposed to the old practice of collective treatment of the entire class. The material of 
the book is suggestive and constructive in every chapter, and is commended to those 
sender: interest or sense of duty has led them to feel the need of a guide to information of 
this sort. 
e brochure is published as the “Ninth ident of the National Society for the 
(Scientific) Study of Education,” the members of which are concerned with the care © 
of works of practical moment to education, and wad i annually for the discussion of t 
subjects involved. This fact, coupled with the high standing of Dr. Wood as an aut oe 
ity, would be sufficient to stamp the book as a noteworthy contribution. 
The extensive bibliography at the end of the book, covering each branch 0 
ye es treated, completes a treatise which will stand for some time as the chief acti 
in its field. 
112 pages, 8vo paper; net 75 cents, postpaid 80 cents. 
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