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Identifier: publicschoolmeth03mcmu (find matches)
Title: Public school methods
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander), 1857-1929
Subjects: Teaching
Publisher: Chicago : School Methods Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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activity to the entire lung tissue and thus present asgreat resistance as possible to the inroads of disease. 23. Play. Every normal child takes hearty delight inplay. Play gives strength, courage and confidence, andmakes the child energetic, quick to decide and ready to act.For these reasons and because active play gives the bestpossible exercise, successful teachers encourage their pupilsto play, take an active interest in their games and enterinto them whenever it is possible to do so. However, as thechild grows toward maturity the plays in which he is inter-ested change their nature decidedly. 24. Sports and Gaines. At about twelve years of agethe boy begins to take more active interest in games of anathletic nature and to think more of playing in companywith other boys. He delights in teams which act in obedi-ence to a captain and which struggle together for victory.Whether alone or in company with others, competition is apowerful motive, and the greatest pleasure that a boy can
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Hygiene and Discipline 57 feel is in overcoming some other person. He loves courageand endurance and will manfully strive to control himselfand subordinate himself to others, if in so doing he and histeam can win. Sometimes the same spirit is manifested by the girls,but to a much lesr degree. They do not care for the sameviolent forms of competition nor are they so much inclinedto work together, but there is usually an increasing interestin games of chance, of cards, and in such table games as theyare familiar with. Possibly this tendency is due to a certainextent to the fact that they are usually discouraged fromentering into the lively outdoor games. The wise teacherwill do all she can to interest the girls, and will keep themrunning, jumping or taking part in the milder games of theboys, so long as they can enter into them with interest andzest. The outdoor sports which particularly attract the boyin his early teens are hunting, fishing, riding, rowing,sailing and swimming, the las

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