A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1858Calthrop, S. R. (Samuel Robert)
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A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1858
Calthrop, S. R. (Samuel Robert)
Physical education and training
From partial and one-sided cultivation of Human Nature, partial and
one-sided results can alone ensue. The commencement of this glorious era
will date from the first complete education of all the manifold nature
of man. The grand work once inaugurated, by the wondrous law of
hereditary descent, natures completer and nobler on all sides will be
the heritage of the next generation, by virtue of their birth, and so on
in stately progression each generation shall expand and transmit a
larger power to the generation that succeeds it; and at last the grand
universe of matter shall put the world of man to shame no longer, but
man with God's image shining through him, shall be seen to be worthy of
the glorious nature in whose bosom he dwells.
See to it then, Educators! that young Human Nature has its due. See to
it that conscience and the soul have their rightful supremacy, that
intellect and sweet human affection walk hand in hand. And lastly, see
to it, Educators! that these young bodies have their due. Learn for
yourselves numberless manly sports and games, and resolutely continue to
teach them and practise them yourselves in the midst of your scholars.
Love open air and exercise yourselves first; this love will be
contagious, and will communicate itself to those around you. No atom of
true dignity will be lost, and a priceless fund of good humor will be
gained for yourself, and a mutual good feeling will be established
forever between you and your scholars. Do this, and we shall no longer
hear of schoolmasters becoming old men before they are forty; but the
schoolmaster will be known as the youngest looking, healthiest and
happiest man in the district.
Upon us, my friends, more than upon any other class of men, this great,
this lamentably neglected duty devolves. We are to see to it that young
limbs and lungs have their rights; we must make men understand that it
will be a sin against God, if they do not have their rights; a sin,
whose punishment is as certain as the law of gravitation. And more, it
must be our task to make men understand the inevitable blessing which is
sure to descend upon the keeping of God's commandments written upon the
body.
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