A Plea for the Systematic Annual and Universal Examination of School Children's Eyes and Ears

نویسنده

  • Frank Allport
چکیده

Tlie vast amount of money invested in school properties and annual budgets, cannot be well expended unless the children are in a proper physical condition to receive instruction. Unless children receive and absorb the instruction presented they cannot; be properly educated. Unless children are properly educated they do not become useful citizens; instead they, are apt to develop idle and criminal tendencies and become financial and moral charges upon the State. If, therefore, it is deemed advisable to materially mitigate idleness and crime, and to increase the ranks of self-respecting and self-supporting men and women, then the logical conclusion is, educate them ; and if physical defects hamper their educational progress, then eliminate, as far as possible, such physical defects, and allow the children at least the physical possibility of profiting by what the public schools offer. There is much to be said concerning the specific and intimate connection existing between a child's general health and his school progress, but as my portion of this symposium refers only to the eyes and oars of school children, I shall be compelled to limit myself to this phase of the subject. It should be remembered, however, that this topic is by no means restricted in its character, for, with the exception of mental capacity, nothing is so essential

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دوره 3  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2016