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Title: Rural life and education; a study of the rural-school problem as a phase of the rural-life problem
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941
Subjects: Sociology, Rural Rural schools -- United States
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of our bones, thepairs of muscles and nerves, and the anatomical con-struction of our different organs, but of practical hy-giene we have learned but little. Our teachers are nottaught such practical hygiene, and know but littleabout it; the people themselves, as a mass, know butvery little as to sanitary conditions; and only recentlyhave we begun to direct our attention to the properform of physiology instruction. Most of this newawakening is due to the state boards of health and tothe newspapers, instead of to the schools. The real needs in such instruction are hygienic, ratherthan anatomical. How many bones or pairs of mus-cles or nerves we have, or what are their names, arematters of no consequence; the important matter isthat children know how to take proper care of theirbones, muscles, and nerves. Still more important arethe great sanitary problems, particularly of rural life.Many rural homes and many rural schoolhouses do not,as yet, have even the rudiments of sanitary arrange-
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HEALTH DEFECTS IN CITY AND COUNTRY CHILDREN COMPARED Compiled from a study of the health examinations of children in twenty-fiveAmerican cities and of rural-school children in five American states. Only inpediculosis (head lice) and iu skin diseases do the city children show greater per-centage of defects. (From Woofters Teaching in Rural Schools, p. 299.) 2646 A NEW CURRICULUM Need for better health knowledge. The recent army •draft medical examinations have given us a rude shockas to the physical condition of our young men. Theirlack of simple hygienic knowledge was also clearly re-vealed by the camp life and discipline, and here theboys from rural districts appeared to less advantagethan did city boys. In the first draft, approximately onein four of the young men between the ages of 21 and30, the time when a young man should be in the primeof physical condition, were rejected for the army be-cause of physical defects which would incapacitate themfor the life of a soldier. Others

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