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Riverside Educational Monographs

EDITED BY HENRY SUZZALLO

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE

THE

TEACHING OF HYGIENE

IN THE GRADES

J. MACE ANDRESS, PH.D.

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, BOSTON NORMAL SCHOOL

FORMERLY HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY AND

HYGIENE, STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WORCESTER, MASS.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

BOSTON, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO

The Riverside Press Cambridge

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W. H. BURNHAM

PIONEER IN HEALTH EDUCATION

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COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY J. MACE ANDRESS

The Riverside Dress

CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS

U.S.A

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CONTENTS

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

I. THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF HYGIENE

IN THE CURRICULUM

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II. THE STATUS OF THE TEACHING OF HYGIENE. 12

III. THE GOALS OF INSTRUCTION

IV. SUGGESTIONS ON METHOD

V. IMPORTANT PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTION

VI. THE TEACHING OF HYGIENE IN THE RURAL

SCHOOLS

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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SELECTED LIST OF BEST REFERENCE Books

FOR TEACHERS.

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OUTLINE

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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

THE impotency of mere knowledge is gradually

being recognized by the schoolmaster. Long he

has believed in the magical influence of informa-

tion about human conduct. Centuries of unchang-

ing pedagogical tradition bear witness to his faith

in the omnipotence of facts. Now, somewhat sud-

denly, this sublime confidence in pure, or rather

isolated, intellectual training, is disturbed by lay

critic and psychological skeptic.

As long as theory and practice were the sep-

arate responsibilities of two different classes of

people, the dependence of each on the other could

not be fully perceived, and in consequence the

assumed self-sufficiency of each was safe from

destruction. It is precisely because contempo-

raneous intellectuality has assumed practical

aims, and because practical work has sought an

efficiency that requires scientific aid, that we are

now no longer content in education to worship

pure learnedness. When learning ceases to be

worshiped exclusively for its own sake and comes

to gain the sanction of the actual service it may

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THE TEACHING OF HYGIENE

IN THE GRADES

THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF

HYGIENE IN THE CURRICULUM

HYGIENE is an applied science of practical value

having as its objects the conservation and im-

provement of man's health and the lengthening

of human life. That health is of fundamental im-

portance in life and education, taking precedence

over all other values, is the thesis of this chapter.

1. The value of health

It is a common experience that loss of health

and life leads to keen mental and physical anguish.

If hygiene can alleviate this suffering in the slight-

est degree, its position in the elementary-school

curriculum is abundantly justified, but it may do

more; for preventable illness or postponable death

is always a distinct economic waste. It is possi-

ble within reasonable limits to estimate this eco-

nomic waste and so put a monetary value on a

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Freeman's The Teaching of Handwriting

Haliburton and Smith's Teaching Poetry in the Grades

Hartwell's The Teaching of History

Haynes's Economics in the Secondary School

Hill's The Teaching of Civics

Horne's The Teacher as Artist

Hyde's The Teacher's Philosophy

Jenkins's Reading in the Primary Grades

Kendall and Stryker's History in the Elementary Grades

Kilpatrick's The Montessori System Examined

Leonard's English Composition as a Social Problem

Lewis's Democracy's High School

Maxwell's The Observation of Teaching

Meredith's The Educational Bearings of Modern Psy-

chology

Palmer's Ethical and Moral Instruction in the Schools

Palmer's Trades and Professions

Perry's Status of the Teacher

Palmer's Self-Cultivation in English

Palmer's The Ideal Teacher

Prosser's The Teacher and Old Age

Russell's Economy in Secondary Education

Smith's Establishing Industrial Schools

Snedden's The Problem of Vocational Education

Suzzallo's The Teaching of Primary Arithmetic

Suzzallo's The Teaching of Spelling

Swift's Speech Defects in School Children

Terman's The Teacher's Health

Thorndike's Individuality

Trowbridge's The Home School

Weeks's The People's School

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Atwood's The Theory and Practice of the Kindergarten

Andress's The Teaching of Hygiene in the Grades

Bailey's Art Education

Betts's New Ideals in Rural Schools

Betts's The Recitation

Bloomfield's Vocational Guidance of Youth

Cabot's Volunteer Help to the Schools

Campagnac's The Teaching of Composition

Cole's Industrial Education in Elementary Schools

Cooley's Language Teaching in the Grades

Cubberley's Changing Conceptions of Education

Cubberley's The Improvement of Rural Schools

Dewey's Interest and Effort in Education

Dewey's Moral Principles in Education

Dooley's The Education of the Ne'er-Do-Well

Earhart's Teaching Children to Study

Eliot's Education for Efficiency

Eliot's Concrete and Practical in Modern Education

Emerson's Education

Evans's The Teaching of High School Mathematics

Fairchild's The Teaching of Poetry in the High School

Fiske's The Meaning of Infancy

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