Conditions of Healthy Brain Activity 

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Questions for this Chapter —

1. What is the first condition of successful education?
2. Show that daily efforts, intellectual, moral, and physical, are necessary for children.
3. On what principle is the blood-supply regulated?
4. Show the importance of rest after meals.
5. What is the best time for lessons? Why?
6. On what principle should a time-table will be arranged?
7. Show that brain activity is affected by nourishment.
8. Under what conditions does food increase the vital quality of the blood?
9. Why must food be varied?
10. Show that children are spendthrifts of vitality.
11. Give a few useful hints concerning meals.
12. Why should there be talk at meals?
13. Give some rules to secure variety.
14. Show fully that air is as important as food.
15. What have you to say of the children’s daily walk?
16. What is meant by the oxygenation of the blood?
17. Show that oxygen has its limitations.
18. What are the dangers of unchanged air in spacious rooms?
19. ‘I feed Alice on beef-tea.’  Why?
20. What of Alice’s mind?
21. What are the joys of Wordsworth’s ‘Lucy’?
22. Show the danger of stuffy rooms.
23. What principle must regulate ventilation?
24. Why was night air wholesome in Charlotte Mason’s time? Is it still the case?
25. Upon what physical facts does the need of sunshine depend?
26. Show that the skin does much scavenger’s work.
27. Why do persons die of external scalds or burns?
28. Why is a daily bath necessary?
29. Give some instructions Miss Mason had for clothing children.

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