Excerpt from Rearing an Imperial Race
What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Very closely allied to the Science of Eugenics on the one hand and to Education on the other, is the Science of Nutrition. It comes as it were between the two, for only the child who is well born and wisely fed can make the most of the education offered. - Miss Marian E. Cuff, 1913.
If one considers what is now included in the domain of "education" and compares it with what was included under the term as recently as seven years ago, one cannot but be struck with the change that has come over the meaning of the word. Formerly, education was in the main confined to two aspects of the life of the individual child - (i) the growth of character; (ii) the growth of the mind. Now education tends to look increasingly at the social problems that present themselves for solution in the case of the child, the problem of physical deterioration, the problem of under-feeding, of impoverished homes and of unsuitable employment. The State and the local authorities have come to see that it is not enough to instil precepts and to impart knowledge, but that it is also their task to see that the child is capable of assimilating the knowledge and that his environment is such that it will not entirely undo the effect of the school training.
Side by side with this increasing attention that is given to social questions there has been an increased recognition of the importance of the child as an individual organism. The teachings of biological science and psychology have laid stress for the need for treating each child as a distinct individual, with capacities and idiosyncracies of its own, and have shown how closely related are the physical, mental and moral aspects of child life.
These two causes combined have led to a widening and a deepening of the purpose of education and have placed upon those who administer the educational system the duty of watching over the physical well-being and the general welfare of the children committed to their care. - The Education Officer, London County Council, 1910.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a nation depend; but if the population of that country is stationary or yearly diminishes in stature and strength, that country is doomed. - Lord Beaconsfield.
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