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Excerpt from Physical Education, as Influenced by the Arrangements of the School-Room: An Address, Delivered Before the Society of Teachers and Friends of Education in New Jersey, at Their Quarterly Meeting at New Brunswick, June, 1847
The following Essay was originally prepared as a report on the subject of which it treats, at the request of a committee of the Society of Teachers and Friends of Education in New Jersey, and subsequently delivered as an Address before the Society, at the request of the same committee. The simple design, in its preparation, was to bring to the notice of Teachers, and others con cemed in the business of Education, some considerations, drawn from well-known principles of human physiology, in reference to the in?uence they might exert on the physical health, while directing the mental discipline of the youth committed to their care. Possessing little claim (beyond the intrinsic importance of the subject) to the attention, it would not have been thus presented to the public, had it not been urged by those for whose benefit it was specially prepared, that its publication might, in some humble measure, aid them in their important, but ill-requited labours, and contribute to secure for them the co-operation of parents and the community at large, in regard to a department of their duties, in which counte nance and support are greatly needed.
In accordance with the design of the Essay, the subject has been treated solely in reference to its bearing on the duties of teachers; and many topics of interest to the parent, which, in a systematic treatise on Physical Edu cation, would claim attention, have been necessarily omitted. Some few of these that could be conveniently introduced, in connection with analogous duties of the teacher, have been appended in the form of notes, an arrangement which, it is hoped, may extend the useful ness of the Essay.
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