Excerpt from School Hygiene
The present century is discovering that the care of children is the most important thing in the world. Except in so far as children possess vitality, integrity and intelligence, nothing is worth while. In the past our cities have been built as if manufacturing and commerce were the great aims of the world. The discovery of childhood is the supreme achievement of our day. The time is coining when cities will be built so that children may be well and happy, so that the treasures of past civilization, the precious inheritance of the achievements of the human spirit, shall be passed on to them most effectively.
One of the leaders in this world-reconstructing view is Professor Leo Burgerstein, who has taken as his special theme the health of the school child, realizing that children in school are kept in school and under school influence, most of the hours of most of the days of most of the years of childhood. He says that the school must itself become a health-promoting agency, and the school curriculum a means which shall so influence the children that those who take part in it shall be better off in health and vigor than those who do not.
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