Eyesight and school life . long sit upright. It need not reach abovethe loins or lower part of the back—if it reachesto the upper part it will interfere with the freemovements of the body. Also, unless a childis able to rest his feet on a foot-board or on thefloor, and has to let his legs dangle, fatigue willresult. The height of the seat, the height of thedesk, and its slope, are all matters which shouldbe observed, and indeed are attended to in allmodern school desks. The slope for writingshould be 20° and for reading 40°. The best constructed desk with which I amacquainted, is one devised b
Eyesight and school life . long sit upright. It need not reach abovethe loins or lower part of the back—if it reachesto the upper part it will interfere with the freemovements of the body. Also, unless a childis able to rest his feet on a foot-board or on thefloor, and has to let his legs dangle, fatigue willresult. The height of the seat, the height of thedesk, and its slope, are all matters which shouldbe observed, and indeed are attended to in allmodern school desks. The slope for writingshould be 20° and for reading 40°. The best constructed desk with which I amacquainted, is one devised by Mr. Priestley Smith,and manufactured by the Midland EducationalCompany. It is made upon the printiples advo-cated by Cohn, and is made of different sizes to suitthe varying stature of the scholars. It would, inmy opinion, be improved by being made somewhatlighter. I have ordered many of these desks forpatients, with satisfactory results. In the photo-graphs (^Figs. 7 and 8) are depicted a little boy and SCHOOL
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