The complete online text of Health and Education by Charles Kingsley.

The English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became the ideal of "Muscular Christianity" through his books and active, many-faceted life. The son of a country parson, Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819. After attending several sc...

Charles Kingsley is one of those prolific second-rank Victorian writers whose works have in recent years been undergoing marked reappraisal. Kingsley himself is a fascinating, because representative, Victorian figure with wide-ranging interests in religi...

The Reverend Charles Kingsley, writer of poetry; novels; historical works; sermons; religious tracts; scientific treatises; and political, social, and literary criticism, was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors. His was by no means the stere...

Staff Education for Healthy Kids (EHK) was started in Johnston and Catholic Central Elementary Schools in Appleton, Wis., as a pilot K-6 physical education curriculum with integration into the academic classroom. The program addresses and teaches healthy lifestyles "upstream" or from...

School health educators can play an important role in developing character education among young people. Aside from providing leadership in encouraging school involvement in character education, health educators can assist in the process of identifying the values to be promoted in school. However, health...

House Republicans on Thursday night narrowly sustained President Bush's veto of a Democratic health and education spending bill.The 277-141 vote was uncomfortably close for Republicans, falling just two votes short of the two-thirds tally required to overturn Bush's veto. But as they did on three...

A massive spending bill with increases long sought by Democrats for education, health and job training programs passed the Senate on Wednesday despite a promised veto.The measure, passed 56-37, would be the first of 12 spending bills for the budget year that began Oct. 1...