Author: C. W. Hutt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-09

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780267430529

Excerpt from Crowley's Hygiene of School Life The centre of social responsibility has Shifted from the adult to the child. Progress viewed from the point of View of the former has been halting and in many directions disappointing: the change of the focus to the child has made a vast - an almost incalculable - change in the outlook. Seeming impossibilities find a solution there, Optimism replaces pessimism; that the child is father to the man remains no longer a mere empty sentiment, but has become a fact in the recognition of which must be found the groundwork of future social action. This change of viewpoint, it becomes evident, is a very radical one. Methods of dealing with children will vary greatly according to the standpoint from which the child is viewed, whether, as has been largely the case in the past, chiefly from the standpoint of the adult, or Whether attention is primarily given to its own laws of physical and mental development. The View that each child must be considered as an indivisible whole, Whose physical, mental, and moral development can never be considered apart, the unfolding of whose life therefore must be in harmony with the teaching of physiology and the laws of brain development, forms the theoretical, the scientific call, for medical inspection. This, however, has not been, directly at any rate, the motive force in bringing about medical inspection. The motive force has been rather the failure, seen on all hands, of the methods of treatment of the child on the former lines, and into the history of the call from this point of View we must enter rather more fully. Before, however, recalling the steps taken in our own country, it will be useful to follow, though in only very brief outline, the history of the movement in continental and other countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.