Show TEACHERS SEEK HIGHER LEVELS FOR FOB EDUCATION TION f Adult Training I Use of of Leisure Lei Lel- sure Time Stressed sed at Meetings Meetings Meet Meet- N ings of Ed Educators Problems of raising the general level of Intelligence by adult class adult class class- work and edu the educating whole child instead of teaching isol isolated ted subjects w were were re flung a as challenges to Utah school principals and superintendents in conferences in irs Salt Lake City Sat Sat- Our challenge is to to train adults In n their increasing leisure time so 50 that an in in intelligent majority instead d of a seeking profit minority will rule our country J J. J W. W Kirkbride superintendent dent of the Cache school district t told representatives of the states state's states 40 40 school districts at the Utah Society of School School Superintendents' Superintendents convention in the capitoL Miss Charlotte Stewart physical education director for tor high school schoolgirls girls in Irr Salt Lake City emphasized Mr Kirkbride's point Pr Urges Urge Leisure Program The problem of utilizing leisure tIme Ime in adult education work work work-is is of vital importance since it i 13 is mOrene more ne necessary essary that we save Eave our social ocial structure in this crisis than that the economic structure be corrected she said Miss Stewart outlined point three program to draft trained teachers for adult make available to adults all the community comm resource for promoting education and revamping revamping revamp revamp- ing the curriculum to emphasize avo avo- rather than vocational train train- ing lag The avocation of today may be the vocation of tomorrow she explained Dr Lowry Nelson of the University of Utah addre addressed d the superintendents on social ocial aspects of educational readjustment readjustment re re- re adjustment and Dr L. L John Nuttall Jr superintendent of Salt Lake City schools spoke on school progress based on objectives Discuss Revenues The afternoon session was devoted to technical discussions of revenue and budget problems The social welfare of the child depends depends de de- de on educating ng hi his his whole being instead of merely teaching him isolated olat ed subjects F. F A. A Hinckley president of the Utah Secondary School Principals PrincipaLs PrincipaLs' Principals Principals' pals' pals association told more than 60 mem members rs of the organization at at a conference in the Lafayette school Stressing th tb that t t evolution ll instead t d of revolution rn In changing secondary school chool systems systems- th these e educators educators edu edu- discussed their problems as educational engineers Irvin S. S Noall Noah of the state department depart ment of ot education outlined the functions functions of the association and A. A M. M Merrill principal of the Ogden hIgh school advocated a curriculum revision revision re re- re vision to unify the Utah school L. L R. R Humpherys of the state stale I department of ot education pointed out that of extra curricular activities activities activities' ac ac- resulted in formation of cliques and gangs detrimental to youth and that such a activities be encouraged Other speakers were Dr John T T. of of- the state department Arthur Peterson Sandy junior high school principal Bruce Millikin East high school principal DeVoe Woolf South high school principal D. D J. J Thu Thurman man principal of the Blaine Blame junior high school L. L A. A Anderson of Spanish Fork Dr Milton Bennion head of ot the school of education University Uni of Utah and George GeorgeS S. S Bates of the Logan high school |