When the writer went to school, he walked from one to two miles to the little one-teacher school and back each day, receiving thereby plenty of exercise. Now days they go out and bring the children to school in autos, and play basketball and football and so on for exercise. In other words, we are trying to say that we think about nine schools out of ten are top heavy on sports. About the first thing that is required of a teacher is to be a good coaching some kind of game, and the first thing asked of a student is which kind of game he can play best, and the whole school is hell bent on sports and sporting contests.
We are not speaking here of the country schools but of the high schools and colleges. We will admit that a certain amount of sports does no harm, but when the interest of the whole school is centered on ball games of various kind, it is taking that much interest from the studies of the student.
From the editorial page of The Yadkin Ripple, Yadkinville, N.C., Thursday, March 4, 1926
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