CHAPTER X

SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL TRAINING

1. Why does not our physical culture tend to make heroes?

2. What is the end of physical culture?

3. Show that this implies the idea of vocation.

4. What principle should check excess, whether in labour or pleasure?

5. Should parents bring up their children with rigour? Why not?

6. Write a short theme on each of the points suggested for consideration.

7. Show how large a part habit plays in physical training.

8. Prove that self-restraint is a habit.

9. Show the evil of the excessive exercises that lead to after-indulgence.

10. How may self-control in emergencies become a trained habit?

11. What have you to say of the physical signs of mental states?

12. Show that discipline must become self-discipline.

13. What is the part of parents in the holidays as regards school discipline?

14. How do ‘local habits’ point to the necessity for self-discipline in even a young child?

15. Show how alertness must be trained as a physical habit.

16. That ‘quick perception’ is less a gift than a habit.

17. Write short themes on each of the subjects here suggested for consideration.

18. Show the value of inspiring ideas in initiating habits.

19. How could you use the idea of ‘fortitude’ in education?

20. Of ‘service’?

21. Of ‘courage’?

22. Of ‘prudence’ as concerned with the _duty_ of health?

23. What is the highest impulse towards chastity we can have?

24. Write short themes on the subjects suggested.

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