Investigate the following agencies as means for providing
future generations with ancestors of untainted blood: legislation;
moral education; physical education; sex hygiene and eugenics;
penal institutions; medical science.
Enumerate some of the physical and mental handicaps of the
child who is not well born.
What powerful appeal for clean living may be made to the
adolescent youth?
As a concrete example of children being punished for the sins
of their fathers even unto the third and fourth generation, read
the history of the Juke family.
To what extent does the school share the responsibility for the
improvement of the physical and moral quality of the children of
the future?
What kind of teaching is needed to meet this
responsibility?
Reliable authorities have estimated that 60 per cent or
12,000,000 of the school children of America are suffering from
removable physical defects; that 93 per cent of the school children
of the country have defective teeth; and that on the average the
health of children who are not in attendance at school is better
than that of those who are in school. In the light of these facts
discuss the failure or success of our schools in providing fit
material for efficient citizenship.