Mental Hygiene of the School Child (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Mental Hygiene of the School ChildThis book on mental hygiene is designed primarily for teachers, and the applications that it makes of mental hygiene principles refer primarily to school situations. Mental hygiene is a new and welcome point of View in education, representing the convergence of several streams of thought. As the name implies, it is a part of the great field of hygiene which emphasizes the well-being of the indi vidual. It crystallizes newer curriculum tendencies which stress adjustment and integration of the personality as Important goals of education. It makes possible the conservation of the interests of the whole child which the departmentalization of schools has threatened. It pro vides for the transfer to the school, in part, of the last remnant of child training that has been the exclusive prerogative of the home. It focuses attention anew on the problem of discipline, making application of all' that has been gleaned from recent developments in psychology and the study of the personality.Whereas this book is designed primarily to interpret the meaning of mental hygiene for teachers, the principles discussed, to be really effective, must have been practiced in early childhood and ought to be the possession of every parent as well as of teachers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.