Health and cleanliness : a text book for teachers
1938-03 1938 1930s 69 pages : illustrations 18 HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS being clean is not a form of vanity to which we can reasonably object. Further, when the habit of cleanliness has been generally established in a class or in a school, no single member will find cause for vanity in the fact that...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Health and Cleanliness Council
March 1938
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/C6D0035D-BF45-4FBE-B96C-D200A59AC735 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/41379849-6DA3-41BC-B8D4-B8DBE5391173 |
| Summary: | 1938-03
1938
1930s
69 pages : illustrations
18 HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS being clean is not a form of vanity to which we can reasonably object. Further, when the habit of cleanliness has been generally established in a class or in a school, no single member will find cause for vanity in the fact that he is clean. The object of teaching cleanliness is to make cleanliness an ordinary, inevitable part of everyday life: something to be taken for granted. Only at those stages where it is rare and exceptional can it be the occasion of vanity or rivalry. The thing to be aimed at is the establishment of the habits in the first place, and their stabilisation in the second. They are established in the first instance at an early stage of development by simple appeals to "instinctive" tendencies, by the giving of privileges and even rewards, by investing actions with rituals which give them emotional significance. They are made stable by making them rational, by giving assurances that sound reasons exist for their performance, and by the actual giving of these reasons where this is practicable: so that boys and girls, who have developed beyond simple appeals to "vanity," continue the practice of cleanliness, partly because it has become habitual, but also because they know the reasons for their actions and intellectually approve of them. They are further stabilised when they are made ethical, and older boys and girls learn that they are serving through habits of cleanliness, not themselves only, but every member of the community to which they belong.
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