Excerpt from The Art of Dancing: Its Theory and Practice
The world of today needs stronger men and women - men and women who are 100 percent strong.
We have just won the greatest war known in history, a war that was won by efficiency, and physical excellence.
Realizing this to be a fact, let us ask ourselves if we are all in the proper condition physically? Are our schools properly preparing our sons and daughters for our daily battles? Are they getting 100 per cent exercises in our schools?
The writer believes, that much good can be accomplished by our Dancing Masters teaching our children corrective exercises, and insisting that the public schools instruct the child in Nature Exercises and Esthetic Dancing.
Teach the child how to prevent disease through proper exercises. We will then have no need for the doctor to cure the child after he is in the grip of a disease.
Experience has taught the writer that most diseases can be cured through proper exercise. We now have seven children taking our health course, who have been pronounced incurable by the doctors. They have all shown wonderful improvement from the first lesson, and, through daily health exercises, have become strong and healthy.
In China, we are told that the physician is hired to keep the family well, and in good health. Should a member of the family become ill, the physician's salary stops, until the person is cured.
If this method were in vogue in this country, we believe our system of school gymnasium and the medical treatments now in use would undergo a radical change.
It is the duty of every teacher to teach the children to be strong, healthy and perfect in body, to teach them how to preserve and to restore, and not to mutilate or destroy, our Creator's gift.
The school child cannot have too much strength. Strength does not come in bottles or capsules; it can be had only through the careful practice of the proper exercises: exercises that will build up the entire system.
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