Dr. Allen

Mr. Jacobs

Drs Allen

Mr. Jacobs

Dr. Allen

Mr. Jacobs

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By no means. We are badly in arrears of that phase
of it, so far as physical education is concerned.
You know, John, I feel that those teachers should
be just as well trained as kindergarten teachers
are in their work. They should know just as much
about the philosophy of play life and they shouid
endeavor to have an hour for play every day + not
just once in a while. It should be a part of their
every day curricular program.

Do you believe then that every teacher should be a
physical education teacher?

Exactly. Every teacher should have the basic train-
ing that all physical education teachers get.
Physical education teachers should possess the
spirit of exuberance and buoyance, and be a living
example of robust health. This precious possession
on the part of the physical education teacher is
bound to be transmitted to their fellow teachers

as Well as to the group they are working with. That
is the emphasis I would put on physical education
for all teachers, and then our physical education
supervisors of the schools could work out the necess-
ary program with these teachers. |

Would you make the physical education program for
the junior high school different from that of the
elementary school?

Well, I should have the competitive teams at the
apex of the pyramid. There should be a broad base
of inter-school games, both for the boys and the
girls, and of course that would immediately eall
for at least 20 acres of playground spece around
the school. That is semething that our Germanic-~-
minded educetors have failed to put into execution.
You know the Germans even prior to the World War
thought that a horizontal bar and a parallel bar
and some weights to lift were sufficient to build
a strong physique. It is Denver, I believe, that
has a requirement that no school building can be
errected unless it has 40 acres of play space ad-
jacent to the building.

While we are talking of play space, what do you
think about our own lecal schools as far as play-
ground space is concerned?