The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-19
Education vs. Health
WHAT SHALL TT PROFIT A CHILD TO GAIN EDUCATION AND
 LOSE HIS HEALTH.

Cleveland, Oct. 19.-'To teach chill -dren how to live-to live happily, hea1thily and capably.''
 In the opinion of Cleveland public school officials, this is the funda- mental thing under the educational system. And it is the object of ex- tension work undertaken for this school term. The establishment of a anG the or of ea9oo aeoo oea centers throughout the city are de- signed to accomplish the single re- suit of teaching children how to grow mentally and physically in way most interesting to the children themselves.
 What shall it profit child to health? ?' is the question asked by Dr. E. A. Peters son, head of the hygiene department, in urging parents to lend their encouragement and active as- sistance.
 Within, a few weeks social center clubs will have been formed in every Cleveland public school. Mrs. Sarah c. Hyre, principal of Brownell school, long a Cleveland teacher and cham pion of this work. took the lead by aiding the organization of three clubs for boys and girls to study civics. The buildings will be open at night to the clubs and the childrens' parents. Vir- Brownell school will engage in the study of civies through the winter months.
 In the broad work for hygiene. the increasing prevalence of ocular trouble is to be combajted through co-opera- ton with every outside agency.
 We have known for years that oc- ular trouble increases in schools from the first to the eighth grades said pr. Peterson. put why it is. no one has ever explained We wish to study find it is due to the wrong color of paper or the size of type.
 sAlso, we will find out what causes nervous disorders among pupils. We will make the boy and girl so interest ed in the school room that they will l be happiest there, because they will ! see that to live and study rightly will make them grow into strong men 1 and Women.''
 Tie department of hygiene combines ! with the regular medical inspection 1 in school nursing, persona i and public hygiene. physical training, 1 recreation and school sanitation. An l elaborate outline of the work made by 1 I>r. Pete rs7on requires the fullest meas | ure of cooperation from parents
 Detection of communicable diseases and mental and physical defects and i the aid of the family physician, board I of health, juvenile court, dispensaries f and city charities.
 By assisting the medical inspector in f the treatment of mirror cases and mak- ing follow-up calls to homes, pupils are given a chance to learn the fun
 
 and demonstrations form an important r part of the lessons in hygiene. Lee lures, visits to the home and printed matter are offered to enlighten boys and girls on this general subject
 pr. Peterson emphasizes the impor- tance of physical training in the school This first increases the vital ty and endurance, but is not restrict ed to outdoors play. Children are taught how to sit and stand and walk in the school room Trained leader
 What the children learn at school about school sanitation is expected to be valuable to many families in their homes. They will be taught to take pride in good hygienic environm ent about buildings and the care of school H and home grounds also, the proper siIities.
 New York, Oct 1s-"school is the 3iaee is for reereation on and e rest. - 'ss1'
 The stNewark'' idea spread from New Jersey to Manhattan this week, was he metropolis and continued on its toward the New England States. It is spreading northward and westward at a like rate of speed. Those who have interested themselves against the child's after school study 1t home declare a year will see a new system in operation all over the coun-
 Following the experiment in New ark, N J.. of having homework lone in the schoollheuses, the Ameri- ID, declaring in it's official organ, Am srican Medicine:
 over, and to deprive the little hunger ng minds of this delight is nothing short of crime and cruel one at hat. The enjoyment of stories or not carried to excess, 1t is the best possible preparation for a sound sleep III night-nature's sweet restorer- Night work often irritates the brain 50 greatly that sleep is impossible and the child has to be taken from school for that reason alone" York Schools, was one of the first to accept the value of this plan. The Board of Education has seconded his tdvfces to the extent that an elabo- ate experiment is to be made in the Manhattan institutions In the kin iergaren, departments the work is to n vogue at Calvert School, of Bati- nore, which has set scientific stand lrd for the education of children from to 12 years of age. It is also understood that the Cath ,lic schools are to investigate this ystem, particularly as it may apply to ligher grade pupils: cardinal ana Gdbz fa5S o the children of the country in which he expressed a desire to see the eachers take a more parental attitude the earliest training. This oMows his we'll known stand-accord-I ng to his "Dfscourses and Sermons s'The education of child should be- in at its mothers knee. The mind # a child, like softened wax, receives irst impressions with ease. and these last the longest. A child s susceptible of instruction much ear fer than parents commonly imagine f t has the capacity to perceive and ap- ,rehend the truth, though unable as ret to go through the process of req oning and analysis .''