Show I CLOSE OF CONVENTIN Club Federation Has Concluded Con-cluded its Labors 1 INTERESTING PAPERS READ H i t In Addition to Other Interesting Features v1 Fea-tures tho Papers on Education Bend by Mrs W M Stowart and Mrs I J M Bishop Vero Most Instructive 1 Mrs Stewart Favored Shortening U of Curriculum and Mrs Hutohln Dukes Took Issue and Miss 1 r fion issDukes I i With Her Wit Ier i u I n ru From an caucauonai aiuuuijumi > un tcrday mornings session or the convention mornings vention of the Utah Federation of Wo I I I mens clubs was by for the most interesting Inter-esting held and was considered by many teachers and educators present t to have been one of the best meetings i of ltd kind ever held In the city I Mrs Emma J McVlcKer chairman ot the State educational committee pre L l sided First came the report or Mrs i McVickor on the work done by the educational I edu-cational committee which was appointed ap-pointed In February last At a meeting held In March work for two years was planned by the committee Among the lines of work decided upon to be fostered I Jnes I tered by the committee were that of the kindergarten manual training and domestic do-mestic science an effort to secure the election of women members of school boards and the selection of proper f hooks for study by the educational committee com-mittee and club Mrs McVickor complained com-plained of the same lack of club etiquette 1 eti-quette in the work of the educational committee as did Mrs Coulter In connection con-nection with other matters and said m the women had not yet learned business I methods In fact had not even learned ordinary business courtesy In replying I tb letters A marked increase of Interest In educational edu-cational matters has been noted by Mrs McVIcker In traveling through the State and she said that the outlook for good work during the coming year was most encouraging as the people everywhere every-where are anxous to hear and know 11 more kindergarten manual training and domestic science work Then followed a number of kindergarten I kinder-garten songs sung In most charming style by graduates and members of the 1 University training school under the direction of Mrs Hanford of Rowland Hall HallMRS I MRS STEW ARTS ADDRESS The paper by Mrs William 1I Stewart Stew-art on What Can Profitably be Eliminated Elimi-nated from the Curriculum of Our Public I Pub-lic Schools followed Mrs Stev arthas a most convincing way of presenting a I subject and frequently through her address ad-dress she was Interrupted by applause She said In part The question of what can be profitably ii profit-ably eliminated from the course of I study generally adopted in the common I schools of today may be considered I from two points of view I i meaps can the subject now contained In the I curriculum be profitably reorganized C andllfterenlly related to each other I answer emphaticallyyes J It means Shall the children be less proficient In I the three Rs I answer emphatically xioJ 1 During the last ten years no subject I sub-ject within the scope of education has received so much attention from educators edu-cators as the school curriculum It I Is universally recognized that there must be some modification In our course of study but just what has been the < uery which has given rise to so much and so varied discussion Two proposed pro-posed solutions of the problem have been the outcome of this agitation One Is what subjects can be omitted or can secure less attention so as to permit the Introduction of new subjects the second solution Is a reorganization of the school curriculum so as to emphasize empha-size the moat essential subjects permitting per-mitting those of less value to grow of I necessity from those which are most I important at the same time lessening I In no degree the clllcluncy and effectiveness I ef-fectiveness of the more formal l school studies These two solutions grow out of two entirely different theories of education I edu-cation vizr first the acquisition of facts and development of skill as the 4 end of education or quantity as the Ideal oC education According to this i theory the education which the children chil-dren get in school is measured by the I grades of promotion the pages of textbooks r text-books committed to memory and the i various subjects which the child goes f through The parents estimate of the jv childs progress Is based upon the monthly report which shows his pro llclency the per cents estimated by the teacher on the basis of the prob 5 hems solved the pages 0 history read l t and the correct answers given to geography I geog-raphy etc SHOULD MODIFY CURRICULUM Within the last quarter of a century G viqt sums of money hare been spent one on-e the remlt of our public I school system with courses covering f period of fifteen to twenty years The J c public Is now asking where are the returns I I re-turns for this vast expenditure of time and money When a boy passes through the eight grades of the common com-mon school four yearn of high school four more of the university What iu his equipment for the battle of life What I I fervlce Is he prepared lo render to society so-ciety While socIety has been evolving t f f Into more complex conditions the school j I has practically remained I curriculum praclcal I the same I I Sf t i J answer the questions by saying that the schol should furnish educatIonaL It educa-tIonaL conditions which will best pre lC the girl or boy to live completely r the social industrIal polltlca and I spiritual life of the Ideal community nr 3n short the true aim of education Is rioclult It 1 expressed In character character which prepares the young E i man and the young woman to live a proper domestic life to Give to society I 9C 9 C their best In Industrial skill 16 become 1 I worthy cltlzeiis of a grand democracy I thy To accomplish those results knowledge knowl-edge and skill must be means not ends I The school duiriculum must be so modified l 9 modi-fied that the standard of measurement 7 cannot be In pages memorized In problems I prob-lems solved Jmt by character expressed t in actual life In complete living 9 MRS IIUTCHINSO DISSENTED 9 i The discussion on this paper was led a by Mrs Yn Hutchinson whose arguments ar-guments were directly opposed to those brought out by 1ra Stcart From her standpoint the curriculum i of Che public schools of today id correct cor-rect She said the present system had 1f been Involved one might say during thcpaat thirty years and called attention atten-tion to the mighty advance school y methods rnr > d during the past year 9G She thought that the school life of a tl child today Is a perfect wellrounded daya mal life In itself The three ll phases of educational development of the child spiritual mental and physical ct physi-cal Mrs Hutchinson thought were being be-ing developed by 1 band of teachers ins In-s this city whose equals could not be jtI found In any city in the land She tJ thought there was absolutely nothing to be left out and said what would bo tf + 0 lopped off tho curriculum would lop off in the hoya and girls that which they will need all their lives Miss Ella Dukes who also spoke to the question agreed with Mrs HutchInson Hutch-Inson that the present school system while not absolutely perfect had been arranged by the bust educators of tho arllnguc 1 day and they had reached about the t right Idea of school work Miss Dukes said she had been cloSoly associated with school wprk for n number oems o-ems and there never was a time when there was such a high estimate placed upon the necessary studies for a school curriculum She thought It wag possible pos-sible without eliminating any of the studies now contained in the currlcu lums to also Introduce domestic science sci-ence and manual training rRs BISHOPS PAPER Theories and Experiments In Modern Mod-ern Education was the tllle of a very able paper read by i Mrs J M Bishop of Ogden which called out the highest words of praise from those who heard i1rs Bishop said in part With each recurring political campaign cam-paign the thoughtful citizens of our country are forcibly reminded that the purpose of educationIn this country I I Is to fit the persons educated for American l Amer-ican clllzenship primarily and as secondary sec-ondary result for activity a world clt I I f Ifens In other1 words to prepare the inumuuai lor social life nrst in his own cOln tr second as a part of the I social universe It Is trite but not less timely to say that In the United Suites this education for citizenship Is necessary I neces-sary for the perpetuity of our Govern 1 ment and the fulfillment of what we are pleased to call our manifest destiny des-tiny We have begun to realize that to reach this end tho children throughout through-out their school life should not only prepare to live as citizens but that the schoolroom should be a miniature world wherein children live fully and freely aa parts of a social whole of which each child is an Interested unit In this paper the word modern Is used to cover the decade which shall end with the present year for its Within UIP past ten years that radical departures from the mediaeval of education I edu-cation have been made Perhaps the best result as yet from the new education educa-tion Is the Increased and Increasing attention given by the general public to educational questions As a witness of this notice the space given In popular I popu-lar magjzlnes and periodicals to educational edu-cational papers and the character of I the men writing the discussions I CLUB WOMENS INFLUENCE The influence I of club women upon education has been almost entirely for good and progressive superintendents and school Journals have everywhere welcomed the cooperation of the mothers moth-ers and women of our clubs The parents 1 par-ents meetings now so general are to I a great extent the outgrowth of the club movement As a natural result of parents meetings has come the recognition re-cognition of the school social as I center cen-ter and this Idea carried out through the energy of club women has In some large cities notably Chicago and Brooklyn transformed certain dark and disreputable districts into reputable reput-able and lawabiding sections or the childstudy craze of the last decade time fprbids more than a brief mention but child study has done this great thing I has led teachers to dc Eire and seek to know and to teach Children individually The live teacher teach-er of today no longer considers her school a < 5 a mass to be ground through a grade hopper While forced to give Instruction in classes the teacher once touched with the childstudy craze Is not content unless every child Is Individually Indi-vidually reached and led to grow under the Instruction given tow INCREASE OF LITERATURE The Increased quantity of literature In the grades is the natural result of the choice of literature a one of the centers of the course of study That thin is I well none can doubt That there are accompanying ells Is true as of all new movements Perhaps the chief of these Is the tendency to read too much In each grade and so allow children to acquire the habit of slurring slur-ring over many ords and expressions without clear Ideas For instance when Superintendent Powell replied to repled the interrogatory I committee of the Washington schools n to what books book-s read In the first grade that the first grade reader Is aO hit as the una bridged dictionary it forcibly suggested suggest-ed to me that a teacher of literature In the grades needs to be a walking unabridged dictionary and that the pup l8 must become at least academic editions to understand the literature now to he found In the grades Teachers as a class hesitate to I teach a subject of which they themselves them-selves feel comparatively Ignorant and which Is so Indefinitely mapped out I by their leaders And while the markets market-s flooded with nature and science reaciers anu stories more 91 less mis leading and unscientific there Is as yet n great dearth of really valuable elementary ele-mentary 1 works on science Some flclentlst have declared vigorously against the introduction of the Imaginative Imagi-native clement In science teaching One noted scientist declares that parents I pa-rents teachers writers and educators i are In league to make liars of the chil dren While the judicious cultivation of the Imaginative should be coupled J with science teaching the chief object I whouia bci to place the child in sympa I thetio touch with the physical world in which he lives to quicken his faculty fo accurate observation and through demanding as David SfarrJordan says that the pupil studying a fish for Instance i i in-stance believes what the fish itself tells him regardless of anybody or any work Dr Jordan declares that the I surest way to cultivate truthfulness of I character In a child Is through science and quotes the words of Agassis This ia i the charm of dealing with nature I horwelf he brings us back to absolute I abso-lute truth so often as we wander EDUCATIONAL REPORTS E1UQA Educational reports were then given by Mrs Blschol of Ogden Miss Reynolds Rey-nolds of Prove and Mrs W R HutchInson Hutch-Inson of Salt Lake Mrs Hutchlnsons report told of what the clubs of the city have accomplished In an etluca tonal way giving the bulk of praise to I the Prcsu Cub for this club was in sirumenlal in establishing the free kindergarten and he school of domestic domes-tic science conducted last summer The Ladles Literary club contrlbuled to the support of the kindergarten the Womans club 25 the Reviewers 50 the Cleofan 50 The school of domestic domes-tic science was a financial success tho amount received from students having been 105 the amount expended 1540 leaving a balance of 103E > There was a small exhibit of the fruits of this school on exhibition to bo tasted by the ladles nnd it is no exaggeration to I say that every dish prepared by the Htlli girls was delicious i Mrs McVicker stated before adjournment ad-journment that she was endeavoring to organize a State Association of Domestic Do-mestic Science und felt assured tat t-at the coming Legislature they would be able to secure an appropriation for the establishment of 0 school of domestic do-mestic ijclence In connection with the University |