Show text BOOKS last season THE BUC deeded in working up a great deal of interest in the question of school fada one feature that we then called attention aUen tion to was the great stack ta of books that the curriculum of the public schools in this city required a pupil to possess some of the smaller pupils in the third and fourth grades were act actually nally marcing two trips to carry to the school room and two to carry them back home agan adaa the evil was increasing and cafora the school year ended the pupils were r ere also being be ing i armed with indian clubs it was no uncommon to see aeo a pupil going home bent over under the ot of a great pile of books on his shoulders and with two indian cleba dangling india in his hands the body was in u posit position ioa of torture from the school analia with which the pupil pil was encumbered and the parents were groaning under the expense of all thi i modern education about thirty dollars is what it cost one father to a supply apply one pupil one year with books ludian clubs etc at that rao rae oar free school system 9 becomes quita tx pensive in the average tt vf kitab where the there e ara aca five fire jr r six PIX of a school age in cases whir tho futher father has baa to raise wheat at fifty couts a bushel toe fond parent is cal catu rally given to murmuring at our modern system of hok learning while the text look bill is not quite so large under the new management of the provo city schools as it was last year it is still larger than is consistent with the present demo catic times and we are glad to know that the board of education is taking steps to still further lessen the evil it tho sciences and the arts must be taught in our public schools as seems to be the desire of our ambitions teachers let it be done by apt illustrative lessons the best mode of teaching is to dispense very largely with the uso us of text books well tea ehra can got get along very well without their thair wie wa except in the studies which constitute the three rs in the old stylo style of teaching and two or three studies since added what lessons tire are given in tl tie e higher branches should be simply directive aul and sao an be given without text books backs the sciences and the arts should not be ba attempted by text book in the public schoos schools let the parents be required to pay for only 0 P ly such books as include studies absolutely necessary in in the schoolroom school toom if this thia enli ruling ng of the beard will not tend to I 1 lessen assan the superfluous studies that have crept into the publio public school tue THE would like to see a resolution adopted reducing those studies |