Show v Page 7 Student Life Monday May 17 1976 Build confidence Retiring professor Another challenge fac$d was Helping people learn to help themselves has been the purpose that much scientific information of four years for worfe in the is just too complex and involved Roskel-le- y for for Philippines Welling poor uneducated peasant sociolof emeritus to understand farmers professor at Utah State to the International “I went ogy University Dr Roskelley recently returnRice Research Institute and ed from the Philippines where he asked them the best way to grow was working for the International rice They gave me a list of 16 Institute of World Reconstruction steps to better rice production this he was For This work was too complicated So I (IIRR) made an adopted son of Cavite a asked what the crucial steps were We narrowed these down to province of the Philippines “The problem in underdevefour basic steps We call this loped nations is that they don’t' scientific simplification” Rosknow how to put together an kelley explained educational system to make it Following basic rule like these to for the farmer to teach the farmers the level of possible peasant learn and to be motivated to productivity and income was 0 apply principles of science to raised percent In the 41 solve his life’s problems” Rosbarrios or villages in the study cases the percentage of families kelley said in the low income category drop“Our purpose was to develop an educational system which ped from 66 percent to 13 percent would make it posible to share “One question I wasaskedwas the fundamentals of jGi?nce with ‘does this program let the rich get poor people in a manner that richer and the poor poorer?’ would motivate them We wanted Many studies show that technical to teach them how to solve their assistance programs really own problems” widen the gap between the rich The program that resulted and poor because the rich can from these efforts is called the capitalize on the knowledge preFarmer Scholar Program The sented but the poor can’t because general principles used can be they are unlearned” “In our case studies of all the applied to areas other than agriculture farmers in four villages this was “The experience in America not true We made the rich and other developed countries richer but we also made the poor has proven that uneducated richer” "farmers won’t listen to white human element collar educators they are susextremely Important picious of them We found it was better to pick a farmer and “The Farmer Scholar Program neighbor educate him and let him train other farmers These was designed to promote human farmers in turn will train more development so people could farmers Our job was not to give solve their own problems The speeches but to train others to basic definition of human is that people are more give speeches” Roskelley said 150-20- deve-opme- nt important than rice and we better not forget the people” Roskelley said “Science has made many discoveries in the last 50 years that should have done much to correct the problems of underprivileged people The fact that there are still so many poor people in the world is not because the answers to poverty are not known” Roskelley said “American scientists and administrators have done a great job in promoting the development of institutions in America that studies serve people World-wid- e reveal we have not been as successful in helping other na- tions do in their countries what we have been able to do in ours” “We need to distinguish between the promotion of mere agricultural projects and the greater task of developing an effective institution to promote agriculture and other projects Techniques badly needed by people who profess to be technical assistants are the skills and insights of institution building” he concluded Recycle This reveals philosophy Helen Tanner’s philosophy for teaching elementary aged children is to first build their self concept “Children don’t learn very much until they feel good about themselves Once they do this you can teach them anything” the retiring Utah State University elementary education professor stated Mrs Tanner will be honored with a dinner Wednesday at 6:30 pm in the University Center Walnut Room All associates and friends are invited to attend Reservations for tickets should be made by contacting Marcia Schuehle at extension 7481 Cost is $4 per person Mrs Tanner has been with the university since 1960 except for one year when she wanted to so Leora Thatcher shares memories “An Evening with Leora Thatcher” will be presented by the Utah State Univesity Development Fund May 19 at 8 pm at the Lyric Theatre Miss Thatcher a native of Logan distinguished herself in an acting career through radio Broadway stage television and motion pictures Her program for the evening will be her reminiscence of life in the professional theatre donation of $3 per person is being requested Proceeds will go to the Floyd T Morgan scholarship given through the Threatre Arts Department A Paper something different That year she taught sixth graders in Taipei Taiwan For most of her time at USU she has been a teacher at Edith Bowen Elementary Lab School teaching third through sixth graders “The difference in teaching at the lab school and my other experiences is that the lab school is like teaching in a department store window Everybody especially other teachers visit the school to get new ideas It’s been a very stimulating experience” Mrs Tanner related The USU elementary education professor was the first teacher in Utah to receive a “Professional Certificate” from the State Board of Education She was also named KSL Teacher of the Day Her hobby is music which she uses both in the classroom and away from school For many years she produced the Christmas Cantata put on by the Edith Bowen children Off duty she is director of the Choralaires a women’s singing group in Cache Valley Mrs Tanner plays the ukelele and does a little writing She figures she will do more with those two activities after retire- ment And she also plans to spend some time with her three children and 11 grandchildren And perhaps travel some if she can do it in an “untourist” fashion “People are more important to me than places If I travel I want to stay long enough in one place to get acquainted” she |