Physical education; or, the nurture and management of children, founded on the study of their nature and constitution / [Samuel Smiles].

  • Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904
Date:
[1838]
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Credit: Physical education; or, the nurture and management of children, founded on the study of their nature and constitution / [Samuel Smiles]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]88 agement of our species, we present, in a tabular form, what we conceive ought to be the proper disposition of time in childhood, boyhood, adolescence, and adult age, in order to the attainment of a full development of the mental faculties, with a corresponding healthy completion of the physical structure. It is not of- fered as a near approach to certainty, for it must be liable to various modifications under varying circum- stances. But it presents, as it were, a bird’s eye view of the average disposal of a day’s time in car- rying out any sound system of physical and mental education. One year is selected, for the sake of example, from each Period of Age, and the hours that should be de- voted to exercise, exercise with instruction, tuition, relaxation, and sleep, stated in the corresponding opposite columns :— Periods of Age. Hours of Play or Physi- cal Exercise. Hours of Physical Exer- cise combined with Mental Instruction. Hours of Study or Tuition. Honrs of Relaxation, for Nourishment, Re|iose, or Light Amusement. 1 Hours of Sleep. Childhood. (Example at 4 years) 5 2 i 5 li Boyhood or Girl- hood. (Example at 11 years) 4 3 2 5 10 Adolescence. Example at 14 years) 3 4 4 4 9 Adult Age.