A Solemn Appeal - James White

Chapter 6
Errors in Education
Many mothers feel that they have not time to
instruct their children, and in order to get them out
of the way, and get rid of their noise and trouble,
they send them to school. The school-room is a
hard place for children who have inherited
enfeebled constitutions. School-rooms generally
have not been constructed in reference to health,
but in regard to cheapness. The rooms have not
been arranged so that they could be ventilated as
they should have been, without exposing the
children to severe colds. And the seats have seldom
been made so that the children could sit with ease,
and keep their little, growing frames in a proper
posture to insure healthy action of the lungs and
heart. Young children can grow into almost any
shape, and can, by habits of proper exercise and
positions of the body, obtain healthy forms. It is
destructive to the health and life of young children
for them to sit in the school-room, upon hard, illformed
benches, from three to five hours a day,
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