Excerpt from Hygiene for the Worker
The teaching of hygiene fails when it is founded upon the assumption that a knowledge of anatomy is necessary; it succeeds when it uses the ever-recurring affairs of daily life as the subject matter, and endeavors to regulate those affairs correctly. It should deal with the establishing of good habits, not with the learning of abstruse facts, and should seek to insure the carrying into practice, instructions given in the classroom. In following out these principles, the teacher will make a daily inspection of hands rather than require that a composition be written upon the structure of the skin and the anatomical effects of dirt.
To support this kind of teaching this series of books on Hygiene has been prepared. A book is provided for each elementary school year from the Fourth to the Eighth inclusive; in addition there is, for older girls, a hygiene dealing particularly with the care of little children and the health factors of home life, and, for the older elementary children and for vocational and industrial high schools, a Hygiene for the Worker.
Each of these books is based upon daily hygienic routine and the hygienic inspection which should begin the day"s work in every school every day. In addition, the general topics, such as clothing, food, and exercise, assigned to the year"s work, are treated in relation to alcohol and tobacco, anti-tuberculosis measures, home hygiene, and the particular necessities of cold and hot weather.
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