Show UTAH TEACHERS ASSOCIATION Sixth Annual Session Convened at atthe atthe the Assembly Hal Hail Today by Kerr or Lonn The sixth annual ot of the Utah State assocIation convened nt at atho the ho Assembly Ial hull this morning and the thc attendance as mich much lar larger e than anticipated delegates being prent present from Crom nearly nearl ever every seton section of the State Thi The proceedings were swore exceedingly In interesting and the two Iwo important ad addresses dresses made b by President Alson Allison o of Ogdon and Supt Frank D 11 Coper Cooper of at this dt were listened to wih wIth rapt at lenton while W A Nelden President Kerr err and President Tanner macho modo Informal informal mal talks that were appreciated It was not supposed that DavId Star 1 WI Jordan would arrive until later In the tho day and arrangements had been made for fat n a committee to m meet t him but lie he stole In upon them unawares and on being Introduce introduced nt at the hour ot of nd ad made humorous ret ref references to his former vIsit hee here remark remarkIng lag Ing that the people had n a long time ago named one ot of the Uth Utah rivers after his family It was 1030 when Alison Allison caled called the session to order and and Lawson gave as an organ solo Eolo the In terezo from tie de WELCOME W Nelden Neiden ot of the bard board of at educe ion was A then Introduced and gave the lon address of at welcome President Nelden ehen sid said be tel felt high highly honored In being permitted to welcome belI to this city sUch mUch 1 a congress of le He canto camo before them the bIggest and heartiest welcome ever registered tl d In the hertest State ot of Utah While he had not ben been specially identified wih with great educational matters for or an any length ot of time maters still the months that he hehl hl had spent In his work 18 as a member ot of th the board ot of education were ansong the happiest of Ills his le life ThC The greatest bat batties ties ever won had bool been WOI Won lii In the schol school le room and they were registered upon the hearts of tIme boys and gIrls Irle In rooms Yes and the victories thol there won roms would shine out al all the coming years The teacher teachers en em tr nt was of at the highest oner order Al All tried to do time the greatest good to the goo greatest trie number and were inspired b by a anole anoble noble patriotism The he time was long nole past when any school chool was Intended to turn out only thos thoss tho ho Intended to on II e upon Open t or en tl tei vron n rea rh The schools were for Cor alt cla es for or the al farmers ho bo the miners bo boy and fOr fOrthe forthe the carpenters bo boy Mort More practical work wa sra needed in time the schools hool so O a as to lit It the entre entire boy and the entre entire girl for tor practical life More were rere needed too and more o of manual train to lag and he ho hoped d to r ree e more of at work alan along these lines In Utah I It wa swa Mr belet belief that the teacher teachers the poorest laid people In the world considering the amount of at work the they did lie He believed the they be paid bele more lIe Hc had huid len men In his employ who l more salary than that paid the superintendent ot of schools ot of Salt Luke Lale CI City PrIEST PREST KERRS RESPONSE President W J Kerr ot of the n 13 y my Logan responded to time the wel code lie He referred to the large at attend nd en once as indicating the interest taken anc In educational work Whit What was being done In the lie o of SnIt Salt Lake widely known abroad and the people of Utah were proud ot of the puI here It a pleasure to hear Fresi Neldon I ot of this the hoard board of oC education speAk so fO kindly ot of the teacher protes elon antI aho such Auch hl iiii h appreciation lie too thought teach ot of their efforts le tech era hould be pid paId for tor what the they did jUt just er as men and women In other pro professions len a were The visitors to 10 lila eon con had hod rome come In order to receive helpful Utah no now ranked swell along wih with tOR th oher older State States In the el amount ot of more expended for educe Here too th the average salary salar paid Ib the teachers higher than In pid some lome States He again returned thaI tharL I behal behalf or of the visit trig tended teachers for the hearty welcome ox ex extended J M I TAN TANNER ER Supt Nelson Nabon or of county b be being ling ing unavoidably absent President fan ot of the Agricultural College was In introduced and made made en an eloquent Ou nt address lie was much Impressed by time the words of at 10 Pret Nelden eld n with ref reference to the the practical Ilde side ot of education Md and his ot of manual training This education developed the judgment and fitted both m men and amid women for Cor the reo re ot of If life There wa was some somewhat what cit at a chum chasm between the school aM the practical affairs of oC life liCe The relationship between the Echol rom room and the farm tarm and workshop not Yet enough enouch To make mako that relationship closer cloer manual training wa required Germany German o ef al all nations of oC earth the foremost In lat mat mattern tel tern made made this feature very ery prom neat And so fa In I which had made mad mote mOle than any naton nation the power ot of th the workshop had ben been fen seen The ot of our own con com was largely In the he hands ot of the teachers and the Importance and responsibility ot of the tho profession should be fully HI lie represented those teacher teachers tram from the outside towns townsand and the they came bore to get new Idea ideas In work For thee these the they nil looked to S1 lAke Te They aCed the given chen them and boo be ue Ic time the they would have hao a profitable An Innovation was her hare Introduced the children from the fh 0 under PrincIpal McCoy rendering a chorus In a manner that brought forth rounds of at applause PRESIDENT ALLISON LISON President Alson Allison read n a valuable ca an capr per on school hol wor of at which any pr el sits would fall to do justice I It was wasI I w lh ith thoughtful utterances and helpfUl suggestions As s to time tho ole common school he hc thought ther there were er to too many unla units or c centers around which the work 3 gou grouped and believed the studie studies should b be Ce few or er In num number r and the followed on d defined lne lines ReducIng the tho nun num wel her o of main nt subjects and grouping the IncIdentAl br work ark he she give bt better r NEull results One ot of the cardinal pur purposes poses ot of the tho elementary wa was tl to enrich p tb the child chUd The approach Val to enrich the curriculum and amid gun gen crl orally to the tho child Poise skill ki anI anti strength were swore not nol to b be ac In any schol school where the pupils did a little ot of everything In a hurr hurry and nothing thoroughly and slowly ThC The sr greatest gif girt a chil child received In an ele Ie schol school was sync Ih the gift lf ot of Inn guage th power to talk and with facility Involve involved abstractions could only make time the child dul dull than attempt to satisfy every desire Malro of oC the tho child to learn the tho oler offer should b be to tomake make muke the tho child eager to learn and elul equip the pupi pupil wih with the means ot of learning of at thou thought ht swore needed The chil chiLd should fel feel that h ho known know rather than know ow that he knows Tho world of at the useful is he world of tact fact but tact must b be transmitted by time imagination 10 lie believed In conduct In lag the schol school on the tho name amo principles s home that tha t renne refined parents conducted the SUPT COOPER Supt Frank Cooper of at the city schools WL sva then omen Introduced and rea re There Thero are two kinds of people ald Mr Ir Cooper the and the therel thereal rel real The fhe former S always alays normal tM the Inter latter sometimes normal sometimes al an aberration and sometimes abnor abnormal mal mah The word cripple might define aim or emotional condition Thee These aberrations talle people run too tat tact on one side and hence the they rn ran In circles H lie wal reminded of at hed head Wilson and th tha thumb two to o of thorn alke alike So with these cir dr des cles 10 two ot of them were alke alike The characters ot of al all boys bos were different Into their lives Ilde aside from Crom their own dIfferences o of being flowed the racIal and tamly fondly influences alas always at work alwa fel felt These TheBe influences might be almost almo t ant and they al all were to complicate the work or of the school lonelier In France I it Wa was time the dut duty of at the school t 14 make Frenchmen out ot of the d daughters ot of Frenchmen In Germany It was ivas the dut duty ot of the schools chols to make Germans out of Gemans Germans anllo and so on But ut In America I it was time the dul duty of the schools to male melce Americans Americana out Yes Yos and out ot of Italians out of at French Frenchmen tC men out ot of out OUI ot of the sons and daughters of al all the lands In the world This WI one of at the difficulties one of at the problems met In ever American schol school eer every day Then thee there swore ero some laws of that were universal Al All children desired recognition I Every ery child too desired to loor learn but differed at to what Is desired to learn Time The malm maxim trel treat everybody alike would be mos most dl dis disastrous It if applied In the schools and whet I it was disregarded altogether It would be a gc thing To 0 treat eve every everybody bod body alke alike In the school would imply that every evory school child wa was alike In respect to character This could be illustrated b by taking a blue lue and making I a mark on papers or different tnt tints lit In ech each case Japer the mark being radically different nt rota that obtained 1 by making n a mark on n a sheet ot of white raper In school government tho treatment must be suited to the So with the coures courses or of stud study Ther Thea mIght be varied but the character or of the pupi pupil could not be Teaching reaching must rl come to be mor near nearly Altars to must be reared up and systems d n a ire and more Hy By and by In the public schools platon platoon must give way to individual neds There must be more frequent nes I It Is difficult to hold the quick pupi pupil back to time the pace ot of the stow and to push pUh time the show lol one up to the pace an ot of th the quick Quck That Ieans means ire tre quent reclassification and n a readjust ment men c limits The same thing I r not odem Ily not good tor or al nil pupils The he does nut not nCI need net new but new direction I so lS as to 10 give I it nt new force lorre The mut h be respect respected ed and standing on the threshold of oC a anew el new flew century we can ee t the dawning ot of beter better timings especially fur children DA DAVID VI S JORDAN JOnDA I Dr Jordan who had entered Prot Prof Coo Cooper r WR speaking was Intro introduced I and after Q a goo good natured refer reter to his frt first VII visit several years ear ago the sessIon adjourned At S this evening Dr Jordan wi sili lecture at the AssemblY Hal hall his theme themo being The Value or of Higher Edu Education u uca ca cation ton Meetings This department meetings were held at the School building an and the laboratory building of at the Uni er I The subjects considered were primary work grammar preparation Cor or n a college cour course and the tho Sp Speer r arith arithmetic met The general session far r tomor tomorrow tomorrow row wi swill not be held until 2 p nm m when Teacher Dr Jordan wilt speak on Agassiz I as a |