Show PROVO SUMMER SCHOOL Opening Exorcises Lectures by Dr Baldwin Bald-win and 3Iiss Baber The Provo summer school went into session on Monday August 7th at 10 a m with an attendance of at least 300 teachers old young and middleaged wseemingly eager for business The large number of pencils and tablets displayed dis-played promised a large crop of notes Professor Giles presided the organ and all the teachers rose and joined in singing America with spirit and feeling feel-ing The profound silence which immediately immedi-ately followed while President David John uttered a short and appropriate prayer was very impressive Professor B Clujf principal of the Brigham Young academy acted as chairman and formally introduced to the assembly Dr Baldwin of the university of flexas Miss Zonia Baber and Miss Flora J Cook of the Cook County Normal school of Illinois Professor William M Stewart of the University of Utah and Professor George H Brimhall of the Brigham Young academy of Provo who I teachers were all received enthusiastically by the Brief addresses of welcome were made by Professor Cluff chairman President Smoot Mayor Dusenberry and Judge Booth of Provo The chairman announced an-nounced a recess of five minutes to be followed by the introductory lecture of Dr Baldwin on Laws Teaching The doctor directed the teachers to hide their pencils and said If you forget the lesson I teach it will be my fault The true teacher seeks out and works in harmony with the laws of teaching just as the musician applies the laws of music FjrstBe what you would have your pupils become This theiundamental law which the teacher himself must obey Second Know thoroughly the child and the subject The musician must I know the instrument as well as the laws i of sound much more important it is for I the teacher to understand the child ho who would know God must first know himself Then he can become acquainted with tho whole universe I Three Use easy words and apt illustrations illus-trations JJ A few words fitly spoken do more good than floods of eloquence too profound for the mind of the hearers Aggassiz and Socrates practiced this rule Four Secure attention through interest in-terest No one can teach unless he can both secure and hold attention As the sunglass concentrates rays until they burn so attention focuses thought on u point until it burns I FiveBy easy steps lead from known to unknown Make steps four feet i high and the little ones cannot surmount them and if you then lift them over you are not kind but cruel as the grave Your business is to lower those steps until un-til the child can take them himself and never forget that only self help can ever educate a child SixthLead learners to find out tell and do for themselves Do point out the way and leave to your pupils the glory and tho triumuh of making the discovery for themselves Thus you will make them strong selfTeliant and fit for the battle of life SeventhTrain pupils to assimilate into unity their acquisitions This rule is revolutionary and I give you until the twentieth century to demonstrate it Eighth Manage to have learners study the best things Much time and effort have been wasted throusrh failure to select the best things Ninth Train pupils to habitually do their best in the best ways The art of producing grand and good men and women wo-men io i the grandest of all arts therefore true teaching is the grandest of all arts Tenth Lead students through right ideas to right conduct JJ I believe fellow fel-low teachers you ara largely responsible for the characters of your pupil His morals are your affair just as much as his mind Give him in the concrete good thought good motives and reap your reward in seeing them develop into grand good men and women f Adjourned till 2 oclock Monday Afternoon I Miss Baber of Illinois took the rostrum ros-trum to present the subject of geography After some sociable remarks of Utah and her people she presented the following diagram GEOGRAPHY FirstWhy study geography 1 Mental Men-tal discipline aObservation b Imagination Im-agination cReasoning dMemory 2 Knowledge SecondWhat is study Appearances Appear-ances of surfaces within environment a Hill mountain valley plain island peninsula delta canyon bBrooks rivers lakes etc 2Forces acting within with-in environment nHeatandcold thawing thaw-ing freezing bRunning water wearing wear-ing building c Wind wearing building build-ing Glaciers eLand and snow slides fLife vegetation animal man I ThirdForms and forces beyond sense perception a Continents North I America Europe b Oceans Atlantic etc c Forces Winds of the globe Fourth How to Study Geograohy 1 i Observation of environment Symbols Pictures bSpoken and written language 3Maps aIn relief b Flat The speaker laid great stress on leading the minds of children from cause to effect showed how the history of the world Is written in the strata of locks and soil in the migration of plant life and many very natural phenomena The child can understand clearly what he sees but all things he sees are not by physical sight and those forms of instruction which do not create pictures in the students mind will not impart knowledge but he must know the difference between facts and symbols S Time was called and the lecture closed |