A London School For Children It is doubtful if the average person with normal sight makes as good use of it as children with defective sight do after proper trai How many keen sighted people trouble to:
Sit up at their work?
Hold their work at a suitable distance from the eyes Give their eyes sufficient rest?
Desist from close work when the light is bad?
Yot these are ordinary everyday precautions one finds at the L.C.C. Sight-Saving Schools, where children who suffer from myopia and other defects of the vision learn not only to preserve the sight they have, but to make the best use of it, Defective sight does not mean tack of intelligence, but it does frequently mean that a child is backward if it has to compete with normal children in an ordinary school.
The trouble isa child seldom recognizes for itself what is wrong, but is quick to sense its inferiority, and loses heart.
The Natural Tendency The natural tendency of the short~ sighted child is to work on a rainute scale, to write a small cramped hand, and to bring its face close to the work, To counteract this, scholars are taught to write words an inch high, to do everything at an arm's distance away, and to make their strokes thick and firm, This means that chalk must be used—black on a white ground, or vice versa, Pen, pencils and ink are taboo, and even the globe of the world is in black and white, The school is a bookless one, and no newspapers enter its portals, for ordinary type makes too much demand on the eyes, but the bicker pictures are cut from the daily and topical events discussed.
On a foggy day, or when the light bad, even reading or writing Jotters' inches high is prohibited—a fact which might well be recommended to the attention of those who sit in dark corners and strain their eyes over small type.
Knitting takes the place of needle work in the needlework ela
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.