Show CLUB SESSION AT END EM Women omen of the Federation Con Conclude Conclude clude elude Their Meetings TIME YESTERDAY I EANY ANY SUBJECTS DISCUSSED AND PAPERS READ HEAD READi i Educational matters received the at att t n of club women at yesterday 1 seMion elon se lon of oC the State Feder The meeting was ns attended by byr J tion tto of or the principal educators of ot r iny tf who listened with rapt attention which was wae the most t tl th nt resting of ut the entire meeting The Theu fairly s with brilliant rs J I u il jolo is lS S and gave evidence of the deep 1111 i tamest earnest study that had been be bettu wd d upon them then Many new and gin il ideas along educational lines Unes advanced and the reports of the vie rp 1 committees showed the ini mi t Itus educational work was receiving rec through ugh the influence of oJ the worl work of broadminded women of the state the The meeting opened with a report of tin th educational committee by b Mrs McVicker 1 niina J MI lis r McVicker said the committee v is 1 Appointed earl early last i st ary and andi i li id d its ith first t meeting in ch for the theor of or outlining a plaTa p ii of work jr the Ihl two years I me Ch 11 plan Ian outlined was briefly to toa I a interest in the kIndergarten to o ill II 1 young women to take a course In IJ kindergarten training to lo promote i training and domestic science al alo aln o for tor the committee to use its in t tn 10 have women appointed on Echi schon 01 boards Series of Meetings The I he committee had also alo arranged t have a series of o educational meet meeting t tIn ing In m in the thC t different parts of the state Mrs ln McVicker told of letters she had hadr r i fied asking advice concerning sult suit uble books to be bS used for educational by teachers She strongly urged the use of School and Society bj by I Professor Dewey Development of the tl th fluid by Warner arner and a similar on o n by Oppenheim Mrs Airs McVicker felt gr ally encouraged over ovet the result of th year jeara S work and thought the out outI 1 I Ik Mk k for the coming year ear most favor favorable favorable able Mrs In then surrendered the hair dair to Mrs McVicker in order older that ehe eh hI might call can on of her com cern C m f for or r reports Mss I s May was wu present with a num bf bP r of pupils of the training school and under the direction of Mrs Irs Alice Alke Hanford they the gave a number of kin kindergarten songs which were heartily appreciated by all aU present Mrs rs VV W V M Stewart followed with a apa paper pa er entitled What Can Cen Profitably Be Eliminated From the Curriculum if tt Our Public Schools The paper pape one of unusual strength and was handled in a masterly fashion It was wa wain in part as follows Elimination of Studies The rh question of or what studies can profitably be b eliminated from the i Hirse urs of study stud generally generall adopted in inthe inthe the common schools of or today may be from two points of view It I 1 l is is means can the subjects now con cont t lined in the curriculum be b 1 r r and differently related to toE toa E a Ih h t other uther I answer an er emphatically yes y s sIf If it means shall the children be b less in lent in the three Rs I 1 answer with as much emphasis no During the last ten years no sub jd t within the scope of education has hus r ived so much attention from edu latr aters as the school curriculum It Iti i universally recognized that there must be b some modification in our ourt t nurse urse of study but just what has been Th rh h query which has given rise to so h and so 80 varied discussion Two proposed lr d solutions of the problem have lIaH been the outcome of this tin 0 One joe is what subjects can be winded or ur can secure lesa less attention so se sot 1 t permit the introduction of new sub ts the second solution Is t Of If f the school curriculum so as Its t to emphasise the most essential e sub ts permuting those of oC less les value vahle i t grow TW of necessity j from those ire are ar most important at the same time lessening g ening in no degree the 1 Y md ml effectiveness of the more formal 6 5 hol studies These two to solutions gr w out of two entirely different the ies I I of education viz first the ac acu u n of f facts and 1 ofas of il as the end of education or quan tty v as aR s the th ideal idea of education Accord Ing V n to this theory the education ul i wh h children get in school is meas ineas meas tri by bv the grades of promotion Uon the P I sees f f textbooks committed to mem em 1 and ind the various subjects which the thet t I L 1 K es through gh The parents es le t f the childs hilds progress is based baaed iP up n y the monthly report which shows ii JH 11 in the form of per cents routed by the teacher on the basis banis is the me problems solved the pages of L I i TJ ry read Tad and the corn Answers g to geography ins etc et etIth t tb Ith th theor theory and system or 41 tn t n how hw to maintain the r em efti I nr y in 11 the formal ud nd at atis v tine introduce new nta ones lines is d a m difficult of solution Society Revolutionized Po H tv industrial and political has ha J m the last year yeara ears been i t the ht ne school hool practically retain A i t 1 n l formal curriculum thin thi n the ast Quarter qUArt r of or a century am ins cf f have been money for f T spent education the result is our public ho i s stem tem with courses COUlSE 8 covering Ii a rl l of ur fifteen to twenty years ears The is 1 no now asking where are the re ic TUrI for Tor this vast expenditure of time Um aH i When a boy passes pa ses fu h the eight grades grad of ot the com corn n P h K l four years yeaM of high school fur ur ore of the university what is his m nt for th tIe battle of ot life Ufe What F is lR he pret prepared ared to render n nde to w so sov li t v While society 1 l has lies been evolving olvin li 10 c n nii I complex conditions the hM curriculum has practically re rethe 1 the same I anwer the by saying saylor ih th f ir the th should furnish educe 1 which will In he beet pre r 2 r he p boy hoy y or girl irl to live completely complete KO al lal industrial political anti ant pr lit lift of or the M Id nl l community In Short rt the v tru true aim Rm of education i catlon is so 50 l ai It t Is expressed 1 in character char i II a ler which K prepares the young man mn ant 11 th the yn oung woman to live a proper I rim 1st V t e to toA Kiy tIve e to society th AC ir I In J I skill to become wor worA tl A ena of a grand Krand democracy t At the clo cioe e of ol Mrs Stewarts Stewart paper It pj a discussion dl led by Mrs W TV Wi Irs i ir es and Miss Ella Dukes Duke said Curriculum All Right Sight The subject is lis either opposed to me meb Or 1 bent b am PP d 1 to the for toy I Ij j 1 is our Present pre ent school curriculum i all right The system has been an lI evolved t during the jast rast ra t thirty years anti a d through It we ha hue have c toda today th beet I educated men inca and women the world I has ever known Miss Mise Dukes followed with a I ute discussion She said The pres present present ent erit system of educational work worl has been said to be largely experimental For lo or the past ten years eminent professors professors professors sors have hae given their time to a study of the subject and the plans they have mapped out for tor school work must of necessity be along the right lines It ItIs ItIs Itis Is certainly true that never in the his history history hIstory tory of the world has there been a alime time lime when such high estimation has been placed on the school curriculum Mrs J M is Bishop of or Ogden entered Into a discussion of some modern the theories theorIes ories ones and experiments in education She said in part Old Gives Way to New Hew HewIt NewIt uIt It Is but natural that the old idea of education n as a possession of the privileged aristocracy arl of learning and its accompanying belief that education meant the acquirement of a certain fixed quantity of knowledge of certain branches should in this country have i given way to the nen new thought tho that education means moans the fitting of the whole people to live as fully and com corn completely ly as possible and amI that the pro processes ceases of education should sh uld be made to conform to such an end We have be begun begun I gun to realize reaz that to reach this end children throughout their school chool life should not only prepare to live as citi citIzen citizens zen zens but that the school room should be a miniature world wherein children should live as freely and fully as part of a social 50 whole of or which each child Is an interested and responsible unit I uin In taking up the new it is not necessary necessary necessary sary to duell dell upon the mediaeval idea of education which until recently held I sway swa not only in our public schools I but In universities as well Indeed I Dr Dewey and Professor David Starr j i Jordan have each within a S few months I past made the charge that the medi mediaeval j f fI I ideal still predominates pr in many I of ot our OU Schools This old Idea of edu educatIon j I cation some one has paid ald was crystal i izod in the expression Knowledge is I power and went hand in hand with I Ithe the idea that education was for the few and that to be educated meant to have haye gained a certain amount of or learn learning learning ing lug Distinguished from the Uw mechanical Idea Ides we have ha the thought of the new n W education that moral character is the end CUd sought and that the chief means I to this end is educating instruction I This expression so often heard today implies that not all instruction or I learning is education and that not all I knowledge conduces toward education Hence the revision of courses of study to fit the thought of educating instruction Instruction Instruction tion or as it is more commonly spoken of or to fit the thought of or concentration Concentration should be considered as asa asa asa a natural subdivision ion of apperception The other most subdivision of apperception is the culture epoch theory Theory of Culture Epochs But little argument is needed to I convince us that there is a basis of truth In the theory of culture epochs Since most of us can call and recognise nise nI some pf of the stages in our own lives and are familiar with the sav say savage savage age period of ot boys there might be a question of the tha th propriety of feeding the boy at that age on myths and Indian stories and so making him still more savage But psychologists p are arc author authority ity Ily tJ for believing it is the safest way vay We re all know there is a period of hero worship in youth you just preceding the full tun development of the philosophic or complete stage and that a wise use of tendency may mo tide over the most dangerous d periods p of our young peo pee peoples peoples ples pies lives by inciting them to emula emulation emulation emulation tion and admiration for the character of great lives Finally as regards any new theory and experiment it is the part of wis wisdom wisdom dom doni to teachers and parents alike to receive the new hospitality although tenaciously holding to the old which has been tried and found good and in matters educational as in all others to seek reverently to know the truth For the truth shall make us free The morning session closed with ed reports from Provo and Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den Mrs Bichsel spoke for Ogden and said that while no startling results have hae been obtained along educational lines by club women of Ogden still they the have quietly and persistently worked to further the good of the cause They The have given a series of lectures on the subject and were now planning a free kindergarten Miss Reynolds of Provo gave an in interesting interesting interesting account ot of the progress of the work in her hel city She told of the formation of an educational society and of the work being done by club members in conjunction with the moth mothers mothers ers em and boasted bousted of the fact that Provo now has four kindergartens while Salt Lake has only five |