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Show Louisiana Dean Speaker at 0. Y. U. Education F.leet Brigham Young university's summer conference on education, in its second day of activity, heard Dr. Fred C. Frey, dean of the college of arts and sciences of Louisiana State university at the 1:30 general session Tuesday. According to Dr. A. C. Lambert, dean of the B. Y. U. summer school and general chairman of the conference, more than 200 of the leading educators of the state registered Monday for the five day confab. Social Sciences Dr. Frey, in speaking on the subject, "What Can 'Social Science' Sci-ence' and 'Teaching Social Sciences' Sci-ences' Mean Properly to Teachers in Public Secondary and Elementary Element-ary Schools," declared that knowledge knowl-edge of these social sciences is not only valuable, but almost in- dispensible to teachers in element-j element-j ary and secondary schools as well ; as teachers in the college level. "There are two important questions ques-tions that we should consider," he said, "first; when, where and 1 how should the teachers acquire this important knowledge of the social sciences and second, how can 1 use the knowledge to the best advantage as a teacher in public schools." Dr. Frey insisted that a teach-: teach-: cr's training course today should include what is generally known ! as "background" courses. He stat-1 stat-1 ed that all teachers should have one good course in federal, state and local government; one in economics, eco-nomics, one in socialogy and one in American history. Wednesday's leading speaker will be James L. Nuttall, president of Snow college, who will speak at the 11 :30 general session in College hall. President Nuttall will speak on the problems of the junior colleges in Utah, x Other speakers at the four other sessions Wednesday will be Dr. B. K. Farnsworth of the Utah state department of education; D. J. Thurman, principal of the Blaine school in the Granite district; Clara Farnsworth, also of the Granite district; Miss Jennie Campbell of the Utah state department de-partment of education; Elmo Pack of the Cyprus junior high school in the Granite district; and J. Golden Tayioi, recent graduate , with a master's degree from B. Y. U. Curriculum problems, English deficiencies in high school graduates, grad-uates, the state's program in secondary sec-ondary education, development of language arts in an "activity school," and the extent that English Eng-lish can be taught by all teachers are the subjects to be discussed in the sessions Wednesday. |