| Show COUNTY educational CON the caebe catbe county educational Education tJ bl convention met at logan on the adi dinst bupt boake ly stated that he had bad just arrived from his hla railroad work but he fit flit an abiding and lilily interest in ibe ebe furtherance of the cache county movement bupt cami cam b 11 II addressed the convention on the importance of establishing a wt well weil 11 appold app hinted ted n orm bl school for the territory with a competent and efficient faculty where the more advanced students from every county could be qualified to become teachers he considered the most suite bia bla site for such an institution would be in the country adjacent to railway communication and where board could be obtain ed cheap he considered that every county should maintain a high school the students from which should receive certificates to entitle them to enter the normal institution or the university AFTERNOON BESSION SESSION sor G G davis spoke on the benefits of normal school education to those intending to become profession professional bul bui teachers he compared the courses of instruction and mental pabulum administered iut ini at yale and harvard colleges with the practical course pursued in normal oal cal c leges the latter being eminently preeminently pre adapted to qualify graduates to grapple with the actualities of a professional buh but business iness life rather than its abstractions he was in favor of a normal institution by bli bil means for the territory bI ievIng that each county was notable not able aule independently to sustain such an institution for the present supt bupt campbell as he had hat expressed ed himself last fall in utah county that whenever we put forth all the exertions in our power compatible with our circumstances a kind providence would supplement to our efforts all that wai was needed to make our educational condition reach a desirable standard he alluded to the benefits that would be derived from tea teachers chers ebers holding institutes utes in the counties throughout the territory closing the schoula for a week at a time and meeting together exhibiting to each other their i espee tive live systems of teaching canvassing the buat beat methods 0 imparting primary instruction and lecturing upon edu rational cati cat ional onal and kindred tople topie 4 he was aware that in a great many districts in cache county schools were sustained inid by taxation where they were not he recommended the trustees to collect the tuition fees as teachers were found from year to year abandoning the schoolroom in consequence of their inability to sustain themselves as aa well as they could in other business channels and some had bad the misfortune to experience more difficulty and labor lubor in collecting their pay than they bad in earning it payment of teachers monthly in advance would probably do as aa much to woo teachers to engage edgare and continue in their profession as the present method of remunerating had contributed to their abandonment of the same sama he read the following epitome of the provisions of a bill which had passed the house of represent Re representatives presen natives last february that the proceeds of the public lands shall form a perpetual fund to be called the national education fund to be composed of half the revenue derived each year from the land sales and invested in five pr cent united states bonds the interest of this fund fand and half hait the proceeds of the land sales of the previous year to be distributed among the states statts and feb fea on the basis of population between the ages of four and twenty one but during the first ten years the distribution to be made in the ratio of the illiteracy of the various population populations that the local legislatures must farst first pledge them themselves selves before receiving their share to provide free education for their children between the ages of six and sixteen and to apply all money received under the aut act in accordance with its conditi conditions ont that fifty per cent of the amount received the first year and ten percent du during ing edg subsequent years tua may y be devoted to the establishment of normal schools and that each state and territory shall be entitled to every apportionment portion ment after the first which shall have made the above provision for the education of its children shall have applied the money already received in the prescribed manner mander and shall have made a full report of the number of its schools teachers and school houses owned and hired the daily at its schools and the amounts appropriated for free schools by its legislature passed feb ath 1872 A committee of four were appointed to draft resolutions expressive or of the bense cense of the meeting bishop L H hatch addressed the convention on the responsibility which every good citizen was under in educating and cultivating the minds of the youth after the committee on 01 on 01 resolutions had retired superintendent and others addressed the meeting on the importance of legislative aid educational cat ional conventions and kindred topics mr goo geo davis chairman of committee on resolutions reported the following which were read and adopted by unanimous vote whereas the teachers in cache county having met in convention to forward the educational interests of the county in pursuance of said object offer the following resolved that we endorse the wisdom of the e territorial legislature in allowing the counties to assess one quarter otone of one per cent additional for county purposes and that wo we respectfully petition the county court of cache county to use for furthering tile tiie educational interests of the county so much of this fund as in their wisdom may be nee neo biary for this thib purpose resolved that we heartily endorse the sen ben timenia advanced in relation to the establishment of a normal ins titu tion either in connection with the deseret university or as a separate institution as the board of regents of the university of deseret mayde mayda may termine determine and that we ve consider it a necessary step in the educational progress of the territory that a well appointed normal colle e should be established at as early a day as is compatible with the financial inte into interests of the counties rf resolved solved that there be held in cache county a teachers institute to continue one week to which every teacher throughout the county be invited to attend and that those who do so suffer no deduction of pay and during which the schools of the county shall be closed atsuchi at buch sueh time as the territorial superintendent and the cache county superintendent may agree upon and that edu caters from salt sait lakeland other counties be invited to attend the exercises to consist of addresses from school authorities an exchange of idab idras among teachers illustrations of the best methods of imparting primary instruction with lectures in the evening when convenient veni ent on education and kindred topics Resolved that Trustees the throughout the county in districts where schools are afe not run by taxation be solicited to make arrange arrangements meLtS whereby teachers can be paid monthly resolved that we view the establishment of a school teachers library as an indispensable requisite in every county and that we pledge ourselves to continue our efforts and contributions in this direction until the cache county school teachers library is as complete as aa may be desirable on motion the convention adjourned slue blue die ROBT bont L BYBEE secretary |
