How School Affects Your Kids (pg. 7)
Thinking Cap
A Series Rethinking Modern Living & Society
by Consumers' Association of Penang
The school is an institution which unbalances those most prone to psychosomatic disorders.
The state of nervous tension in which they are kept by oral tests, compositions, examinations, the discipline of certain autocratic teachers, the shortage of physical activities and fresh air, the threats of demanding parents, and also the excessive desire of some children to do well cause many pupils chronic anxiety which affects the proper functioning of the internal organs.
Besides bedwetting of preschool origin which may be prolonged by anxiety, there are many cases of headaches, digestive troubles, colitis, cardiac erethism and dermatitis which miraculously disappear during the holidays.
In fact, there is a risk in putting children day after day, in situations which take a heavy toll on the nerves.
In the long run, the body system becomes exhausted and reacts less and less well to emotional demands. Internal lesions and "adaptive illnesses" may occur, preventing the pupil from reacting flexibly to new situations.
The disastrous effects of these states on performance at school will be obvious to everyone.
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