Excerpt from Physical Education in Relation to School Life: A Statement of Present Conditions and Future Needs
Growth and health are natural human qualities. Given good conditions and reasonable environment they are within the reach of almost all: under adverse conditions they are not.
Public and private endeavour (under the direction of authorities, committees, societies, philanthropic and otherwise, and backed by a vast expenditure of private and public money) aim at counteracting varied symptoms of lowered vitality more than half of which are directly or indirectly the results of environment. The work would be enormously assisted by a public conscience, a sense of communal responsibility for the conditions which to-day render existence insecure. Such a sense can only be based upon a knowledge of physical needs and an individual acquaintance with the sensation of bodily well-being which we call fitness or health. To be effective, these must be acquired during school life.
In this book the problems of growth and health are viewed in their relation to education. Conditions which experience leads me to believe most adverse to their solution are examined: the main outlines of a satisfactory physical education are indicated. I have compared the aims and objects and appreciated the practical value of some of the better-known methods of dealing with the question, and have suggested the direction in which future improvement may most usefully be sought.
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