Show menses Hi chills inniE iB in our last daily issue was published p ab a paper read before the utah county Tea teachers ebors association wherein appeared the following nor is ia it in the matter of wages alone that the teacher suffers by comparison with other professions his influence docial and poh political is ia generally slight and not infrequently a teacher with an ace accurate knowledge of history ancient and modern and a thorough comprehension of economic science must admit the humiliating fact that lis voice avails leis in his community than does that of some man who cannot sign his hia name legibly and whose literary attainment tain ment end with tho the comic weeklies upon this I 1 maht enlarge indefinitely but this is enough for my purpose that it if true is a humiliating confession fes les sion for the sale sake of argument we will grant that the teacher has haa stated the case correctly rind and if so this lit ia our estimation is ia the cause cans e for the lack of influence too many of our teachers are theoretical re and have few of those qualities of manhood which always appeal to the sentiment of rural districts such as aa comprise the greater part tf of utah by this vs e do not mean that a teacher should necessarily be able to plow the strai straightest latest furrow oil of any man in a comm community unity of farmers cy cr that he should be capable of excelling in in the rough pursuits but his hia judgment ju dament I 1 ought to be good on most of these thesa things hat at lie be bo not role gated to the position occupied by women lie ile should be especially apt in the arithmetical problems that apply to such work as aa the community is following A prominent citizen of this city relates an incident that may serve to illustrate our meaning A few years ago he says one of the provo teachers was asked to measure a load of wood and he was at loss to know how it was done there were practical men watching him men who naho knew how to measure wood and reel reelon reckon on it up iu in their leads lead s without bained bein able to explain just how they figured it the result was that baid aia is teacher became a laughing laughin 9 stock k among those practical every day citizens and it was not because the educational worker was not an able teacher hohag he had the rules ef cf the arithmetic down I 1 to to a dot in t theory beor Y and could easily give the correct answer to any problem given off hand relating to the measuring of woodcut wood bat but the practical part confused him we lve have too many teachers of that class they are all right in the theoretical affairs of life but wo fally lacking in the practical the result is that th at their influence social and political is generally slight and aa stated in tho the quotation above not infrequently y a teacher with an accurate knowledge 11 of history ancient and modern and a thorough gh compre hension of economic science must admit the humiliating I 1 1 fact that his voice avails him less in his comma vity pity than does that of some man who cannot sign his name leibly legibly le and whose literary lit arary attainments end with the comic weeklies but bat that uneducated man so BO far as scholastic learning loes 00 S will usually be found to have a far better judgment than has tho teacher on those matter which count most toward furnishing the bread and butter and hence his influence in the corn com unity THE would like to impress it upon our teachers in the public schools that wo we need more attention paid to the practical part of education it counts more with the average farmer if his son id ia able to lie measure asure a piece of land correctly aban if the youth is able to explain in detail the theoretical working of a sum is in square measure |