Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1913 — School Children’s Attention. [ARTICLE]

School Children’s Attention.

* Prof. W. Phillips read recently, before the Royal Sanitary Institute in England, a paper detailing his observations on the limit of school children’s capacity for attention. He concludes that two intervals of rest of 10 minutes each during an ordinary school session are more useful than one of 20 minutes. The attention wanes more rapidly in the afternoon, and consequently the studies which most severely tax the attention, like mathematics, should be confined to the morning hours. Professor Phillips concludes that gymnastics is not of necessity a mentally recuperative agent. If the teacher is a strict disciplinarian in gymnastics, the fatigue exhibited by the children may be of a pronounced character.