The Teacher's Health; A Study in the Hygiene of an Occupation by Lewis Madison Terman

Author:Lewis Madison Terman [Terman, Lewis Madison]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Tags: Occupations -- Diseases and hygiene, Teachers
Published: 2010-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TEACHER

one, but, generally speaking, a goodly fraction of the vacation should be spent in outdoor pursuits and a somewhat smaller portion in study, preferably of a not too strictly professional kind. The vacation is preeminently a time for striking a new balance in things mental and physical. The somewhat narrowing interests of the schoolroom should give place temporarily to other intellectual pursuits and to the vitalizing, humanizing influences of literature, history, art, and friendship. On the physical side, the well-spent summer vacation should rid the teacher's brain and muscles of the accumulated clinkers of a school-year, and if she belongs to the well-known variety pedagogia an-CBtnia she should carry to her schoolroom in September at least a million more red corpuscles for each cubic millimeter of blood in her body than she could have boasted on the previous Commencement Day. Blood tests and other physical examinations are a recent and portentous addition to the methods of experimental pedagogy. Ignatieff x has demonstrated that the week-long examination nearly always effects a loss of body

1 Zt.f. SchulgesundheitspJUge y 1898, p. 244. 71

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