The Need, Objects, and Method of the Medical Inspection of Primary Schools: A Paper Read Before the Medical Officers of Schools Association, December 13th, 1906 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The opening up of all these difficult questions makes one realise, as I suggested at the commencement of this paper, how many-sided and deep-rooted is this question of medical inspection. It is not merely an individual child here and an other there which is concerned, for the children are the nation of to-morrow and it is the utmost folly, and I would even say wickedness, for the nation of to-day to neglect them, and even to injure them, as it has done and is doing. Medical inspec tion will usher in the dawn of a brighter day it will aid in giving us a more true idea of what education means for these children of our elementary schools that it is not to be looked upon as, in the main, a mere commercial asset, but as the means of the development of a complete life.

In conclusion, I cannot leave the subject of medical inspection without reference to the important part which the teacher will have to play. Indeed, our hope is in him and in her. The success and the advantages to be gained will be in proportion to the harmonious working together of doctor and teacher. The former, to be really helpful, will have much to learn at the hands of the latter, while the teacher must, from his earliest days onwards, be carefully trained in all matters relating to the hygiene of the school and of the scholar. There is no happier augury for this coming century than this close association between the doctor and the teacher.

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