Show SCHOOL SETUP CHANGE URGED BY EDUCATOR Must Keep Step With Economic Eco Eco- co- co Social Civic Advances Advances Ad- Ad vances I Nuttall Says t I Changed educational go goat t IS as a sequel to changed conditions in practically prat i every institution in AmerIcan life was the theme of spring sprin tute attended by nearly 1000 db city school teachers Monday afternoon at South hIgh school Quoting from reports made at the recent N. N E. E A. A convention at Cleve Clev land Ohio Superintendent L. L John Nuttall Jr said In no uncertain manner education is to be be asked to 1 give an accounting r Itself The taxpayer tax tax- payer the citizen zen the parent paren even ven the Uie pupil himself is askIng Does education give an adequate a c cOm fn return for what It costs in money and In time Rather than spend our time defending the educational set set- et- et I I up as it was in 1929 we need to bend our every energy toward an interpretation In in- of the socIal economic and civic chan changes es going goin on us in order than the thc school may beco e ea a functional institution in terms ot of the new problems in which the bOys and girls of America wIll find themselves them them- selves enmeshed enmesh d tomorrow whIch new program must be broadly sIye sive more effective and for the pr pres ent at least much less expensive than the school of 1929 saId Dr Nuttall Teachers Called HeroiC Speakers at the convention described described de- de scribed teachers teachers' s s during the depression as heroic the he saId Quoting from another report Dr NUttall saId We our profound appreciation of the stability the optimism and nd the patriotism pa patriotism displayed by the great body ot of American teachers throughout th the present presen t crisis We urge all teachers and others other in positions of leadership ip to join inthe in the closest cooperative effort for the maintenance nance of higher professional ideals and service The time tIm has come for snore more effectIve orga organization iza- iza tion in order to bring to the attention attention atten- atten tion of the cItizens of this this c country u try the imperative necessIty ot of providing provid- provid ing for lor th the education of the risIng generation Dr Nuttall also outlined newer deI de- de mands in the field of teacher training train train- lag ing and suggestions to adjust schools to the j individual divia child child especially Sp needed to varI by y i ali b f rott Other Speakers Among mong the more important departmental de- de meetings was that deal ing with junior high school and th seventh grade which w was s characterized character character- r- r as the articulating unit between elementary grades and high school Other speakers at the general session ses- ses sion included Alex E Eberhardt Eberhard president of the board of education Mrs Arch J. J West president of the Salt Lake council Teacher Parent association J. J R. R Smith South high school teacher who represented Salt Lake teachers at the Cleveland con con- Departmental meetIngs were addressed addressed ad- ad dressed by MISS Maud Sproat Dr J. J T. T Worlton assistant superintendent De Dc Voe Woolf princIpal ot of South high school and George A. A Eaton assistant superintendent |