The Pre-school Child from the Standpoint of Public Hygiene and EducationThis book details a comprehensive survey of the problems of public hygiene and education of pre-school children. |
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Page 220 - No portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 56 - I hereby give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and...
Page 217 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 156 - We must cultivate women who are the educators of the human race, else the new generation cannot accomplish its task.
Page 66 - ... 2. Prevention of infantile blindness by making and enforcing adequate laws for treatment of eyes of every infant at birth and supervision of all positive cases. 3. Sufficient number of children's health centers to give health instruction under medical supervision for all infants and children not under care of private physician, and to give instruction in...
Page 89 - The term educationally exceptional children shall include all children over four and under sixteen years of age who, because of mental or physical handicap, are incapable of receiving proper benefit from ordinary instruction and who for their own and the social welfare need special educational provisions.
Page 151 - Of the parents or surviving parent of a legitimate child, and of the mother of an illegitimate child; but the consent of a parent who has abandoned the child, or is deprived of civil rights, or divorced because of his or her adultery or cruelty, or...
Page 46 - ... for children over two and under five years of age, or such later age as may be approved by the Board of Education, whose3 attendance at such a school is necessary or desirable for their healthy physical and mental development; and (/') attending to the health, nourishment, and physical welfare of children attending nursery schools.
Page 10 - On every level of behavior, the physiological, the sensory-motor, and the higher psychical, he is acquiring both healthful and unhealthful habits of activity. Though he may not learn to read in the pre-school years, he is mastering the alphabet of life. So potent are these fundamental lessons that this period easily becomes the soil of perversion, inefficiency, and distorted or curtailed development.
Page 4 - The pre-school period is biologically the most important period in the development of an individual for the simple but sufficient reason that it comes first. Coming first in a dynamic sequence, it inevitably influences all subsequent development. These years determine character, much as the foundation and frame determine a structure.