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Balanced Education: Still relevant, however, are his ideal of a balanced education, his insistence on the dignity of labor and the need of economic rationalization (and a common market), his scorn of sensational and dishonest journalism, his awareness that no specific social problem is likely to be solved permanently, and his reverence for knowledge and wisdom even when the latter transcends the rationally graspable.
Results of the various studies substantiated what educational reformers had been claiming for years: traditional subject matter presented by traditional methods alone held little promise for improving students' chances of attaining the aims of citizenship education. A citizenship study made in Detroit, Mich., pointed out that the attitudes and understandings of democratic citizenship are acquired as a result of a many-sided process. The report of the study cautioned that until more certain insight was gained, the schools should maintain a balanced relationship among the techniques of teaching democracy. The Detroit study found that the attributes of democratic citizenship were developed in five ways: by the intellectual process, through participation in democratic activities, via emotional appeals, as a result of cultural assimilation in intimate home and community groups, and as the products of emotionally balanced individuals.
About 70 colleges and universities offer programs to train health education teachers, and the profession is growing. Members of the profession feel strongly that health education should not be considered a part of physical education and that physical education should not be a branch of health education. Some high schools now give a half year to physical education and a half year to health instruction.
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