"Physical education" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... power where they can be employed to advantage, paddy adjustment to the limit of the practical, more intelligent manuring, a wider use of better seeds,[293] the bringing in of new land which is capable of yielding a profit when an adequate expenditure is made upon it, a mental and physical education which is ever improving—all these, joined to better ways of life generally, are obvious avenues of improvement, in Northern Japan particularly, not to speak of Hokkaido.[294] But it is not so much the details of improvement that seem urgently to need attention. ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott
... They say to the book and the college, "Give us an education." They cannot do that. You cannot get an education from the book and the college any more than you can get to New York by reading a travelers' guide. You cannot get physical education by ...
— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette
... emphasize, most emphatically of all, the necessity of right instruction as the surest means of promoting purity. Co-operating with the National Superintendent of the Department of Health and Heredity, it discusses all topics of health and inheritance, pre-natal influences, etc. Physical education will also ...
— Almost A Man • Mary Wood-Allen
... into this question when we come to treat of the physical education of the child, but what we wish to point out is that one aim of all our educational efforts must be to secure the physical efficiency of the rising generation, on the grounds that sound physical health is a good in itself; is a means to the securing of ...
— The Children: Some Educational Problems • Alexander Darroch
... least to those who did not know him. Although Dr. Combe completely indorsed his brother's system, he was far lass fanatical and importunate in his advocacy of it. Indeed, his works upon physiology, hygiene, and the physical education of children are of such universal value and importance that no parent or trainer of youth should be unfamiliar with them. Moreover, to them and their excellent author society is indebted for an amount of knowledge on these subjects which has now passed into general use and experience, ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... Parent's Guide. Containing the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood and their Homoeopathic Treatment. To which is added a Treatise on the Method of rearing Children from their earliest Infancy; comprising the essential branches of Moral and Physical Education. Edited, with Additions by Walter Williamson, M.D., Professor of Matera Medica and Therapeutics in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania (460 pages.) 1854. ...
— Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms • Charles Munde
... heavy rugs, and falling off with shrieks of infant joy, to rush back to the end of the line and try again. Surely we have noticed how children love to get up on something and walk along it! But we have never thought to provide that simple and inexhaustible form of amusement and physical education for the young. ...
— Herland • Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman |
