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vocational teacher are agriculture and the sciences, applied or industrial
arithmetic, and some line of mechanics, physiology and sanitation and
some household science, business English and some feature of a busi
ness course and mechanical drawing and some related subject. When
these things are taught by a closely related industrial teacher the closest
correlation is made; the industrial teacher is directly responsible for
making proper connection.
2. The Health Group: This group should include the direction of
sanitation, applied physiology and hygiene. The instruction in this
group should be given by the physician, the nurse and the matrons;
should be almost wholly practical and enfoce the practical application
of hygienic laws and rules of sanitation. The recent session of the
Southern Sociological Congress very justly condemned the teaching of
physiology as now taught. Lessons to be studied should seldom be
assigned, but practical clinics should be given and the pupils forced to
observe their instruction. Not in one case in a hundred is ordinary
text-book physiology of any value, but a knowledge that is usable is
needed and then the pupil must be forced to apply it. Our great force
of physicians and nurses must give far more attention to preventive
measures; and the best way to do this is to reach the children directly.
The entire medical force must devote the major portion of their time to
giving practical instruction in applied sanitation. No system could do
better teaching along these lines if we would take advantage of condi
tions already created. Our physicians, nurses and matrons need to give
far more attention to teaching these things -not merely treating the
comparatively few cases that come to them already beyond treatment
successfully. We must have more efficient preventive remedies. The
"physiology" as now taught takes too much time from the academic
work; is not applied by the student and is. not well understood by the
average academic instructor. In short it is not worth much and is ac
complishing but little. We will shorten the discussion by saying that
hygiene and physiology should be taught after the course suggested by
Dr. L,. W. Terman in his recent book, "The Hygiene of the School
Child."
We wish to discuss and elaborate the plan when we come to discuss
courses of study.
3. The Home-Making Group: This group should aim at the prepa
ration of girls for real home-making and should include whatever is
necessary to this end including some of domestic art, domestic science,
industrial art, nurse training, and, possibly, some dairying, laundering
and bakery training, depending on local conditions. One of the great
est mistakes we are now making, in some instances, is in not having
an exceptionally strong woman at the head of this group. A woman