Mental growth through physical education / by Jakob Bolin.

  • Bolin, Jakob, 1863-1914.
Date:
1893?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Mental growth through physical education / by Jakob Bolin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    best, and we should therefore see to it that those who come after us may be less hampered. We have, during this hour, seen that physical education may be made a great pedagogical boon, as it has been definitely settled long ago that it is such a boon hygienically. And I therefore wish to enlist not only your sympathies for the work which we carry on, and which we try to raise to the highest scientific level, but your active support for all such measures which tend to bring this matter of physical education to the attention of legislators or other persons with influence and power. I wish to stir up the feeling in you, if possible, that each must give his or her mite to the common work of introducing physical education, systematic gymnastics, rational, scientific gymnastics into all our educational institutions, low and high, from the kindergarten to the university, and not only this but into our homes, our families. First by so doing and by inculcating into the popular conscience, that gymnastic movements carefully selected according to their known effects on body and mind are equally indispensable to the welfare of every individual as food and sleep and proper clothing, we can hope to fully realize the true meaning and the true importance of physical education. 747 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City. JAKOB BOLIN.