Date of Award

5-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Education

First Advisor

Paul J. Mundie

Abstract

The ideas of our day lead us to plan for the education of our children. We seem to have passed through three stages in our national life. The first is that of the pioneer whom we glorified. He opened the West and built towns and cities; he smoothed the path of commerce and industry from coast to coast. The second stage marks the captain of industry, whose industrial enterprises have yielded tremendous wealth and power, focusing the attention of people with privilege, patronage, and pecuniary values. The third stage seems new with us, in which more and more people are asking, "Of what value wealth, national* power, and great enterprises, unless there is more health, more joy and happiness, finer and better living everywhere?" The glamour of the pioneer is nearly gone, the captain of industry seems less commanding in a world that is asking that wealth shall be translated into health, power into human happiness and understanding. If these values express the mood of our modern world, then physical education must be viewed as a way of living.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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