Excerpt from Universal Military Education and Service: The Swiss System for the United States Any one looking at the title of this small book might ask why a student of medicine should presume to meddle with questions which at first glance seem to lie entirely in the field of pedagogy. Therefore, a word of explanation is in order. More than a third of a century ago, when my attention was called to the development of nearsightedness in early life, I examined the eyes of over a thousand public school pupils - finding then, as had been found before, that it was impossible to graduate half a dozen from the high schools without making one or more of them near-sighted. I therefore advocated "setting-up" exercises in the schools to assist in lessening the progress of this condition - for reasons which will be given later. About that time also I began to instruct the senior class in a medical school, and soon learned how much young men might be improved by a little systematic training in promptness, exactness, restraint, efficiency, and other soldierly qualities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.