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or standardising description, and they do not involve a great 

 deal of reading, writing and arithmetic. They appeal to us on 

 account of their physical, manual and objective characters. 

 Variety is provided and routine is avoided, the principle that 

 the strange or unaccustomed excites attention while the familiar 

 passes unregarded being thereby fulfilled. Part of the time is 

 spent in doing manual work, basket-making, brush-work, paper 

 and cardboard work, netting and so forth, and later on some 

 other extensions will probably be incorporated, such as free play, 

 games of an organised character and out-door occupations ; 

 and it is quite possible that some lessons suitable for little girls, 

 in the way of practical hygiene and simple domestic subjects, 

 may be added. All of these measures help to equalise the 

 intellectual and physical intelligence and to co-ordinate the 

 motor and sensory functions of the child by directing its 

 attention away from its troubles and so bringing it into con- 

 ditions which serve to remind it that it has far more of the 

 qualities which belong to health than of those which appertain 

 to the disease from which it may be suffering. Hence it is 

 that I regard with favour the work of the Board of Education 

 in its relation to the invalid child, believing, as I do, that there 

 is a therapeusis associated with any effective measures which 

 help to restore co-ordination, whether the inco-ordination of 

 function be physical, intellectual or more manifestly chemical 

 in its nature. 



