Health and cleanliness : a text book for teachers
1938-03 1938 1930s 69 pages : illustrations 20 HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS are easily examined; and children may easily see for themselves whether these are clean or dirty. Comparison of their own hands with those of the teacher will lead to the realisation that those of the teacher are cleaner, and th...
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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/10796/6F32DCF2-DD7A-46BA-871A-7766EE174B23 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/CB18A2D4-EE33-4E66-9D87-36E39B640DB0 |
| Summary: | 1938-03
1938
1930s
69 pages : illustrations
20 HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS are easily examined; and children may easily see for themselves whether these are clean or dirty. Comparison of their own hands with those of the teacher will lead to the realisation that those of the teacher are cleaner, and the love or respect they bear towards the teacher will determine their willingness to imitate him. Young children show a great deal of eagerness to undertake certain kinds of school work — to write essays on paper, to make drawings in water-colour or pastel or pencil on paper. The withholding of permission to undertake such work unless hands are clean will be a stimulus to the formation of the habits with which we are dealing. Or, again, the choice of clean monitors to deal with paper and with books (the reason for this choice being known to the whole class) will give prestige to cleanliness of the person. Much might be made, at a stage when children are becoming interested in the playing of games, of the place that cleanliness takes in the training of athletes. The frequent baths and vigorous rubbings which are part of the ordinary training of the runner, the boxer, the rower, might be spoken of: the few weeks before the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race provide an occasion when this topic might be brought into an ordinary class discussion. Again, the feelings of buoyancy and fitness, the alertness and smartness of appearance that result from cleanliness, might be spoken of as added reasons for practising clean habits. It must be remembered that the boy of ten years of age and upwards has strong feelings of admiration for athletes and sportsmen, and the linking of habits of cleanliness with these will lead to admiration of the habits. Warnings of the likely future evil resulting from neglect of personal cleanliness are not likely to effect much, particularly in the case of young children, for whom the future is too far distant to be real enough to affect conduct in the present. It is better to attempt to link the
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