Creative re-education / by Frederick Peterson.

  • Frederick Peterson
Date:
1936
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Credit: Creative re-education / by Frederick Peterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cles of understanding these past dozen years. Although Dr. Holt died five years after the es- tablishment of the Child Health Organization, the work which he carried on during the five years has gone over the world like flame, and Child Health will be always identified with his name. The World Federation of Education Associa- tions has established a Health Section and the report of the fourth annual meeting of the Sec- tion on Health Education held in Geneva, Swit- zerland, has recently been published (1930). And now (1931) comes the University of Pennsylvania with a far-reaching schedule under a Director of Health Service. This organization is to supervise, develop, protect and care for individual health throughout uni- versity life; give instruction in health conserva- tion, personal and community hygiene and the forming of wise habits of bodily, mental and social health; supervise the sanitation of the stu- dent environment; conduct studies of health problems through research; classify students according to physical and mental surveys, con- stitutional physiques and capacities; and finally, investigate and supervise all athletic exercises and occupations. This is real progress. The second fundamental principle mentioned has to do with such moral training as fits one for life in a social order. The old character training was fostered by example and precept