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RECREATION

RECREATION. Distinction Between Recreation and Amusement. The Body’s Inactivity. The whole body is designed for action. The mental powers cannot be effectively used without physical power. . What Happens in the Modern Family. Physical inaction in the schoolroom Insufficient ventilation

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RECREATION

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  1. RECREATION

  2. Distinction Between Recreation and Amusement

  3. The Body’s Inactivity • The whole body is designed for action. • The mental powers cannot be effectively used without physical power.

  4. What Happens in the Modern Family • Physical inaction in the schoolroom • Insufficient ventilation • Ill-formed seats encourage unnatural positions • Air laden with impurities and germs of diseases “No wonder that in the schoolroom the foundation of lifelong illness is so often laid.”

  5. The Ideal Start for Our Children • Children should not be long confined within doors. • For the first eight or ten years of a child's life : • the field or garden is the best schoolroom • the mother the best teacher • nature the best lesson book “One’s health should be regarded as of greater importance than a knowledge of books.”

  6. A Delicate Balance • Time spent in physical exercise is not lost. • He who studies continually will find that soon the mind will lose its freshness.

  7. Physical Power and Moral Power • Physical inaction lessens not only mental but moral power. • The brain is the medium between heaven and man.

  8. Excessive activity has a similar effect to the arousal of moral nature. • Excessive study, by increasing the flow of blood to the brain leads to the following events.

  9. Unsuitable Recreation • Sports impacts on success in school as well as in spirituality. • Some of the contact sports, have become schools of brutality.

  10. Results of Unsuitable Recreation • The love of domination • The pride in mere brute force • The reckless disregard of life • Love of pleasure and excitement • A distaste for useful labor • A disposition to shun practical duties and responsibilities “Essentially, it is a hindrance to real growth!”

  11. Suitable Recreation • The description of life in the past and present.

  12. Hope for Suitable Recreation • “We may learn from the lessons that will make our seasons of recreation what the name implies--seasons of true up-building for body and mind and soul”

  13. Choosing a Home/ School • School buildings should be placed to allow children the benefits of nature’s teaching and lessons. ..

  14. The Role of The Teacher • The true teacher can impart to his pupils few gifts so valuable as the gift of his own companionship. • The sacrifice demanded of the teacher would be great, but he would reap a rich reward.

  15. How to Achieve Two Goals Simultaneously • An interest in beautifying the school grounds will make the children hesitant to spoil or deface it! • Find opportunities for directing pupils to acts of helpfulness and this can be felt throughout the home! • Attributes needed are: A refined taste, a love of order, and a habit of care-taking; and the spirit of fellowship and co-operation.

  16. Solution • Recreational activities will interrupt the regular routine of school-work. • An outlet will be given for that excess energy. “As a safeguard against evil, the preoccupation of the mind with good is worth more than unnumbered barriers of law and discipline.”

  17. THE ULTIMATE GOAL? Souls For heaven

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