[Health education in the family and schools]

1. Health education or--more concisely, education which is closely connected to health--implies all kinds of process, circumstances, and structures causing either healthy or unhealthy behavior. Support or prevention of health is on the one hand dependent on how conscious educators or superiors are of the health education and, on the other hand, what possibilities they have to act. The decisive question therefore is how that can be influenced. 2. Health education implies all which supports life, growth, and incentivates the flowing of vitality, also all which helps to overcome both rigidity and unbalanced situations. The requirements are met by basic material, social and psychic supply. In that case, health education means to stimulate life (the joy of life), keep up the feeling of what is good for oneself, to train in particular the ability to communicate and to face conflicts, and impart the necessary knowledge. 3. Health education is primarily useful to educators who teach healthy behavior. They need to be offered the opportunity of reflecting on situations of every-day life and on situations related to their work as well as having the ability of exchanging and discussing their experience. A chance is given them to stimulate healthy behavior successfully in practical life by being able to join guidance groups accompanying their professional work that do not demand troublesome application for entrance.