Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-06 | Page 11 | Teacher Traces Progress Made in Education

Teacher Traces Progress M Made a dl e ein in Education Education- Sketches Along Lifes Life's Road by Elizabeth Harrison is a autobiography phy but it is inore more than that It Isa is isa isa a chronicler of f the progress that educational methods have made during the the authors author's lifetime It is the story of ofa a life lite that extends from pioneer days in Kentucky to the thet t founding of one ofle of the most beautiful beautiful beau beau- and modern institutions for tor teacher training in the world The book was written with the purpose of ot emphasizing the tho Imp importance to a teacher of ot realizing the greatness s of his or her work not merely as teacher but as ns friend to every child coming g un under his or tier her ence Fifty years ago it was considered I out of of- the question for tor a a. ayoung young woman oman to start out ut to support to-support support herself herselt her her- I self yet Elizabeth Ellzabeth Harrison pioneer of ot Ideas did this very thing She taught countless young women the thereal thereal thereal real art off of teaching She taught that children should le learn not b by being driven but by being led led through avenues avenues of ot happiness Her work york among mothers of pupils Inthe in the face or f opposition and misunderstanding misun was the background for tor our oui- Teacher Parent-Teacher associations tOday oday She humanized ed education t for or r children from froni kindergarten training through the the- elementary schools It was was Elizabeth EUzabeth Harri Marri son who hung the first firt picture in a a Chicago public school scho l' l land and who vho established h her r Ui theories in the United States bure bureau u ot of education n. n Elizabeth Harrisons Harrison's child stories are internationally known Her Study of Child Nature Is internationally internationally inter Inter- nationally valued her Sketches Along Lifes Life's Road is the summum I bonum of a a. life rich in living JivIng and Stratford Stratford I