Show PIONEER EDUCATORS WIN STATE TRIBUTE Assistant Schools Superintendent dent Praises Achievements Achievements Achievements Achieve Achieve- ments in Early Days One of or the most important things thing which the covered wagons brought brough broughto to Utah was a n. distinct appreciation for Cor education n arid and d a determination to tt give the young oung folks as much educational edu edt advantage as IlS possible A. A C C. C Matheson assistant to Dr C. C N. N Jensen Jen Jeri sen state ate superintendent of or schools declared Friday The result of oC this has been that Urn even in hi the days of or the pioneers pioneer Utah lacked the Illiteracy which has ha been so characteristic of areas ear east of Df the Mississippi he sa says sAmong s Among the he original pioneers were wen some ome who were college bred Mr Matheson said Orson Spencer and andOrson anc andOrson Orson Pratt were among these anc and thc they hey with the other college men were talking higher education almost al most flOst before elementary education was vas provided DEVELOPED ELOrED RAPIDLY Education in Utah developed ra rapidly rap rap- idl idly for frontier times because of ol the he development of Utah tt town life me and md because of the community spirit which prevailed Colonization was carried on in an orderly purposeful way c with each lony taking as much of If the luxuries conveniences and necessities of or the day as conditions would permit Church meetings characterized every settlement and andt it t was only natural that when a group roup of or people were thrown cr r time after time the subject of edu edit sting eating the youngsters soon would be considered The first schools In Utah were more nore or less impromptu affairs carried car car- ried on by George A. A Smith and oth ers rs by the light of or the log fires Ures The second year after the arrival of oC the first settlers found Hannah Hol Hoi brook rook teaching a school in Davis count county A report of or conditions in 1857 just 10 years ears after the first of the he covered wagons reached the val vol le ley y Indicates that almost every settlement set set- ement had its school most of oC which were rere furnished with made home desks tables and slab seats scats cats HIGH uGh CLASS SCHOOL Salt Lake City more advanced than ian most of ot Its neighbors had a high Igli class schoolhouse made of adobe dobe with whitewashed walls and painted woodwork There were six windows and one door School teaching teaching teach teach- ing ig was not a lucrative calling even cven In those iose days das and Salt Lakes Lake's one teacher teach er had to tt turn to other pursuits a good cod od part of oC the year car to make a liv- liv Ing ng But the Important thing is that Utah tah children were given encourage encourage- Lent ment and all advantages in education tion on and from that time on the trend has las as been to do as much as possible for tor r the growing generation Utah has ri schoolhouses now some of them holding upward of 2000 WOO students It has las as more than teachers there ire are e nearly pupils There are areme some ome communities which have poor poor- er r educational advantages than oth'S oth oth- ers rs S 'S because of oC adverse local economic condItions but the germ of learning which crossed the plains in the cov coy red ered ed wagons has done its work and Utah's tah's school system can pass mus muse muster ter ter r with ith most school s systems stems in the coun tr |