Excerpt from High Schools and Sex Education: A Manual of Suggestions on Education Related to Sex Whatever the reasons for the failure of so many homes in the past, we shall probably not bring up a generation of better home makers except through educational procedure directly bearing upon home making; and for any comprehensive and systematic educational work we must depend upon our schools and our teachers. That teachers are aware of a growing responsibility in this field is shown by the resolutions adopted by the National Education Association at its annual convention in Salt Lake City, July, 1920: As effective health education is essential to the conservation of the. Child, who is the most important asset Of the Nation, we favor definite plans for physical training to be carried on regularly in every school of the Nation; we indorse the making of good-health practices a part Of the daily life of the child; we recommend some such system as the modern health crusade as a part of an effective course of health education; we favor the teaching of social hygiene in all teacher-training institutions, and recommend the cooperation of teachers with all organizations of parents in the instruction necessary to the inculcation Of sound ideas and attitudes in children and youth. As to the essentials of social hygiene, we favor the establishment by the States and the Nation of definite standards and ideals of physical perfection of children of school age, to be placed before pupils and parents, and we advise the adoption of a plan of regular reports to parents of the physical standing of their children, to the end that every American child may build his life on a basis of sound physical health. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.