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Excerpt from The Ninth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Vol. 1: Health and Education
Health may be considered the keynote, the goal of effort, not only in school hygiene and sanitation, but in the entire physical education of the child, if the word health connotes not simply a normal state of the vegetative organism, but biologic soundness and completeness, present and potential, in respect to the racial as well as the social, industrial, and other Obligations of the growing boy and girl. Health is the condition Of the individual who is organically sound and who has the biologic basis for the attainment of complete ness Of body, completeness of mind, and completeness of character.
Health is not the end of life or education but it is an essential condition for the realization of worthy ends, more immediate or ultimate, in the career of the individual. The epigrammatic question may well be reiterated, What Shall it profit a child if he gain the whole world of knowledge and lose his health What may a child be allowed to accept, by those in any way responsible, in exchange for any actual or vital part Of his health?
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