Show TALKS BY UTAH EDUCATORS r I NUMBER 7 < NORMAL SCHOQLSTAN1itA11S BY ROFSOR WILLIA3I itL STEWART Ken cmpetton in all professions and vocations forces specialization ad close l division or labor I is not long singe I school teaching became a profesf n rhd normal school in fact is a recent inst I tuton yet it bas made marvelous strides I There are in the pUited State today I probably moro than ItS normal shols I with 100000 students Now the wih over 100 student tte pro I fessiona training or teachers is regarded as essential as that of doctors anti lawyers law-yers The educational oJo professional 1 in standard tho United of the States average demands normal a schco high i I school education and one yes professional pro-fessional training Such being the stand ant in our own state nQrmal school Recenty leading educators have given much atenton to the scientific study of chidren and methods for their education which has led to the establishment of char ot education in our coleges and universities This movemen has had great influence In raising the standard of the professional training of the teacher so that today we have schools for the training or teachers with as high a standard a those or the most learned profession notably the Teachers college or Columbia university I look to see in I the near future the standard of the normal school as high a that of the college or university for certainly the art and science of educatioa is at sciece eucton as comprehensive I com-prehensive and difficult a that or any other science and art The preeent Inter eat in the scientific study ot children is 1 Iegp g t A fte I the beginning I of a movement which will not only result in the professional train bnJ l all wili who extend pretend into to all teach courses children of study which are intended to lit young I men and women for the practical duties ot life Something o our own state normal school connected with the university would doubtless interest the readers or The Herald lhe regular normal course I covers a period of tour years and in elude practice teaching in the training school The university offers an addl I lonal advanced normal course corre spending to the regular four years col lpge course which includes practice In the training school advaced ledgogica and psychological work This course is especially designed for the professional training of young men and women who I may desire to tar more advanced POSI tons in the p II chool senico I is I reredby leaditigeducators tat teach erln high schols and colleges ned pro fesional tranlngs well as those In the common schools The university has estblsled In connection with the normal school a department for the tralnlg or kindergarten teal rs which offers a fouryear course similar to that or the normal schOol Iho training or prtc school is a wel organized comI15n school embracing all ot the usual grates In addition to the regular coursed study given in our public schools there is given systematic wOrk in manual training and observation or nature study with a welequipped shop and laboratory Thus the training of had and sense Is coordinate with that of the intellect The training school is a school for practice observation and experiment AS the beneficial results of our schools depend so much upOn thl education and professional ski of the teacher no I doubt the public and especialy we par I eats are deeply interested In what will elevate the professIonal standard of the teacher Probably not more than one third of the teachers in the public schools of our state are wail educated and tire fessionaly trained This is due mainly to two reasons first the lace of encouragement en-couragement in remunerton which eu cated and professional teachers receive I have known brignt competent teachers to abandon the profethlbn and become rich but I never knew one to remain in the profesion and become atuent Second Sec-ond the indiscriminate employment or teachers by school boards I is on that eciee and skillful teachers who I iiae spent years in preparation re ceive no more for their services than those who simplYfolow It a a vocation I do not advocate higher salaries for the teachers now employed for I believe taking theta till In all they are probably pad all they earn but I argue that there is not proper recognition given the ectu cated and professionally trained teacher As there is better pay for better teachers then the standard of the normal school wm go higher nd higher I believe that this state makes the best possible invest mOnt when it provides the children with a good alround education and that the bt and most economical way Is to em I ploy teaches educated and professlonalhtrlned |