| Show IN INSH I IN r ION I i iI I Four Hundred Pedagogue Pedagogues At Attend Attend Attend tend State Meeting I 4 I ADDRESS Of i t PRESIDENT VAN VAIT co TS ADVICE TO SCHOOL BOARD RD 4 The seventh annual meeting of the tb 1 Utah State Teachers association opened in hall ball last night with some IIO In attendance As was w sf feared the prevalence of ef smallpox caused a perceptible falling in the representation re representation reSen tation of teachers I County Superintendent of of Schools i Oscar Van Cott C tt a q ag president pre of the Tas as association presided and delivered d liv r dan an ad address address I dress to the teachers teacher Brigham am S Young of the board bord bo rd of education education bade the teachers welcome elcome to the city Mrs William Igleheart was also to have welcomed the pedagogues in behalf of ot I the mothers and nd club women of Salt Lake but illness prevented her at attendance attendance Mrs E L E 33 Shepard ap appeared appeared poured as Mrs representative tive and read hep hev he address There were j jre responses re from George e Christensen C rl su superintendent superintendent superintendent of schools of o Sanpete county on behalf of the teacher 5 from the south and front from Nephi Anderson 1 superintendent of ot schools of Box Elder county speaking for the teachers from I the north Music by the Best Brothers Guitar and Mandolin club 1 ballads sung I by Nat M Brigham m and anda a solo by Al AI Alfred AIfred Alfred fred Best were interspersed in the pro gramme After an instrumental number by the Best Brothers and an opening prayer by Dr Paden of the First Presbyterian church chuich Brigham S Young was intro introduced Introduced introduced In the olden times he said it was the custom to welcome the heroes of the battlefields by presenting them With vUth the keys of the city Though this was impractical in these dals s the speaker assured the teachers that thIt th J they were none the less welcome and that our institutions of learning were as I wide open to them as though they had the keys dangling at their belts He spoke of the responsibility rest ret resting resting I ing with the teachers who had under their care of the inhabitants of Utah He exalted the teachers calling as the noblest of all and paid a high tribute to the memory of the late John JohnR I IR R Park whom he be looked upon as the ideal teacher In speaking of the ad advance advance I vance vante made in m the tle educational system of Utah Mr Young said he hoped to see the time when Wh en graduates of the schools of this state would be found to tobe tobe tobe I be the peers of any in the land In concluding the speaker tendered the I teachers welcome as a citizen of the t parent city of the state as a father and andin andin in behalf of the children of the city I Welcome from front Club Women Mrs E E EL Shepard was then Introduced intro introduced Introduced as the representative of Mrs Igleheart She proffered the teachers a cordial welcome from the mothers and club women of Salt Lake She said that the club women mothers w were ere taking themselves very seriously in these strenuous days and that it was from the mothers standpoint that she would speak The technical side of teaching the mothers could afford to leave to the teachers but hut they could meet on the common ground of the ends to be attained which was not so much the acquirement of information as the development of character As to the sort of character to td be de dc developed the speaker said the best an answer anser answer ser to be found was in the famous article by Elbert lbert Hubbard A mess message message message age to Garcia Extracts from the arti ar arti ti lew le were reread read showing how h W Rowan had set out and delivered the message without a 8 question or a moments hesi heal hesitation tation and how the habit of too to many young oung men of the present day was never to do anything they were called upon to do until un fl they had delivered themselves th of a lot of fool questions Mrs Shepard then went on to say sav that the need of the times was for men and women wo en who wh can do things rather than think about doing them Systematic Systematic Systematic physical culture ethics and manual training would do much to achieve this end but until these were incorporated in the local school system tern tem t m much might be done by breeding a spirit of independence in children Instead of helping g children over hard places they should be encouraged to t worry across by their own efforts Responses from front Teachers In behalf of f the teachers of the south Mr l r George Georg Christensen returned sincere sincere sin sincere cere thanks for the hearty heart welcome that had been heen extended He said he felt great pride and was deeply im un impressed impressed pressed with the importance of the holy hol calling whereunto hereunto he had been called He was wu proud he said of the parent city of th the state and he all ail the teachers of the south uth shared in that pride He was also proud of the progressive people In the southern part of the state of or the edifices they had erected for the he teaching of the young and anti of the efforts of the teachers In conclusion con Mr Christensen said that he believed with the preceding speaker that the sort of men that were needed were the ones who could carry a message nt to Garcia and he was was of the opinion that this was wat the sort of men anti and women the schools of Utah were striving Ing to turn out Nephi Anderson Andersen returned thanks for forthe forthe forthe the welcomes welcom tendered in behalf of the teachers of the northern part of the state He then went wern on to inquire into what was the fundamental need of a teacher and this In his opinion was inspiration i n ir iOl The J e teacher leacher he e said sa id j toe be a d see ee be the tM t rough bencheS benched and tind na the schOol schol room I I and look through th the crude eru d sql shall of the uncouth youth into the soul He must also be d Reea peez n elf into irto the fu tu ture and arid ab ve e aill ll must m be bea ah ab ideal 1st and stick to his ideals though idol after idol be shattered and castle catle c J after castle crumble into ruins i President Van Cotts Address President Van Cott in his address dwelt briefly on the t great gr at progress In education that had nad been made in Utah during the last leat decade d dt de e The people he said sald were taking a great interest in inthe Inthe inthe the schools paid their school taxes willingly demanded the beet best teachers and the maintaining of school for tor the full fun school year The teacher t her more than any ani other oth r shapes hape the ch tet of the Individual said the speaker antI anA he lIe compared poor Or teachers to a Dead pasti I lence that blights the intellects ot dren A good teacher he denned as one possessing deep understanding under high culture breadth ot of scholarship and the qualities of leadership l inspire th pupil The chi standard qt the state he thou e out but tn in thoroughness and nd accuracy it was too low f 1 The good teacher Mr van an n Cott said was the one who the governor of the child w within the childs J own be being beIng ing and develops the conscience so that the pupil does right through h love rather fear He spoke of f the lives of suck such educators as the late Dr D DJohn John R H Park Par T TB B L wis and Dr Karl G U Maeser SUM ad many mn others well known teachers exerting a it benign in influence influence influence fluence through the examples set to the pupils JL 1 I he speaker raM faid Rid there was a great ret deal of talk about bout the employment of Utah talent He favored home talent but he added we must and will have talent If we have to go to the ends en of the earth for It My advice to the school board is said Mr Van Val Cott C tt get set good teachers get home talent tal Pt If you can an but get getgood good teachers He advised the increasing Of f the amount of good home talent by establishing esta establishing lishing more high schools as feeders for tor forthe forthe the normal schools The public school had come to stay though Utah had en enjoyed enjoyed enjoyed joyed it only a few vears and anyone who raised d their thir th ir voice against ag it should be denounced as a enemy During the evening it was announced that the session n on Friday evening ing would be adjourned in to give the teachers an n opportunity to hear heas l Mr Brighams Brigham Grand Canyon anyon lec lee lecture lecture ture for which he had offered half rates to members of the At 9 S a m ni m today Miss Jessie God Goddard Goddard od dard will read a paper patter on To What Extent Is Instruction In English In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Common Schools School Defective and Professor John R Driggs will read one ope on Technical Grammar In Its Rela Relation Relation Relation tion to t Language Teachings Each of these will be followed by discussion In Inthe Inthe Inthe the afternoon the various varlo s departments will meet in the High school building Mrs Ida A Smoot will have h ve charge of the kindergarten department the primary primary mary wl wB be presided over overbY hv by Mrs Lillian H Cannon grammar by Mrs 1111 J M 11 Bishop and the condary secondary s de tie department department tiep p by George A Eaton In the evening Professor William m O 0 Krohn of Chicago will lecture on Practical Child Study and Its Re Results R sulfa suIts to which an ari an admission fee of 25 95 cents will be he charged arged c to nonmembers IE |
