Eyesight and school life . es, and the lower thestorey in which the lessons were given, the morenumerous were the cases of myopia among theelementary classes. A French law requires thetop of the window to be at a distance from thefloor equal to two thirds the breadth of the room,and a French Commission also recommended thatfrom each desk in the school-room there shouldbe visible a strip of sky at least thirty centimetresin vertical extent, measured from the top of thewindow. Light from the left is to be preferred, and thebest position for a child, or any adult, is so thatthe light falls from t
Eyesight and school life . es, and the lower thestorey in which the lessons were given, the morenumerous were the cases of myopia among theelementary classes. A French law requires thetop of the window to be at a distance from thefloor equal to two thirds the breadth of the room,and a French Commission also recommended thatfrom each desk in the school-room there shouldbe visible a strip of sky at least thirty centimetresin vertical extent, measured from the top of thewindow. Light from the left is to be preferred, and thebest position for a child, or any adult, is so thatthe light falls from the left, above, and somewhatbehind. That from the right is objected to, as,owing to the position of the right arm on thedesk, the point to which the gaze is directed isthrown into the shade, and this is the place wherea good light is requisite. Light from behind isinsufficient unless there is good side the front it will be dazzling to those in thefront row, and insufficient to those further back. EYESIGHT AND. SCHOOL LIFE. The question of lighting from right or left isoften only a matter of arranging the seats forthe children, and a teacher who is aware of theimportance of these matters will soon get themset right. When preparing this volume I visiteda Board School, the girls side of which waspresided over by a most intelligent mistress, whowas thoroughly alive to the necessity of good andproperly directed light. She told me that whenshe became mistress the whole of the seats werewrongly placed, but that all that was necessarywas a re-arrangement to bring them into aproper position. The photograph i^Fig. 4, in pre-ceding page) shows these children at their writinglesson with the light falling from the left, whilstanother (^Fig. 5, page 23) illustrates the lightcoming from the right, or faulty direction, andthe childrens copy books thereby thrown into theshade. There were no children in this schoolwrongly placed, and therefore the desks with thechildren as shown in
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