Physical education : an essay read before the Cumberland County Teachers' Institute / by J. S. Hostetter, at Shippensburg, P.a., December 30, 1857.

  • Hostetter, J. S.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Physical education : an essay read before the Cumberland County Teachers' Institute / by J. S. Hostetter, at Shippensburg, P.a., December 30, 1857. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is, to my mind, an error in that system of education which seeks to develop only the mind, and elevate, almost Heaven-high, the intellect, to the neglect, and perhaps at the expense of the body and heart. For man to be healthy, happy and useful, every part of his triad nature must be developed in har- mony. It is indeed true that man was made to think, but he was made no less to feel and act. And it is an assertion that can be sustained by facts, that it is the individual whose triple nature is best balanced by a proper and harmonious edu- cation, who can think, feel and act most happily and successfully. Man may he regarded as the creature of education, in every department of his constitution, for this purpose he comes into the world the most helpless and dependent of all living creatures. His educa- tion begins as soon as he first draws the atmospheric air into his lungs. The parent is the educator, assisted by the teacher from the age of five years to eighteen or twenty, when the work falls into his own hands. The appliances are instruction and discipline— precept and example. Instruction, to enlighten and inform ; Discipline, to regulate and subordinate; Precept, to direct and guide, and Example, for imitation and to lead. Now when this system is in perfect working or- der, it bestows physical training, intellectual devel- opment, moral culture and discipline upon its sub-