Show THE SUMMER SCHOOL the summer school opened on monday august 1 at the brigham young academy at provo dr maeser opened the session by prayer professor duff cluff introduced professor PC parker aker of boston who bits baa recently closed a weeks berston at chautauqua Chatau qua he has been a tac herfor years year there were about teachers pree prec ent who received him with applause alter after some remarks from him as to the purpose in visiting utah a recess of ten minutes was had for social conver kati katica cn 5 on reopening opening re professor parker gave an outline of subjects for study and ic vesti gation and the manner of hand ling them teem there are to be inspru c lions in drawing clay modeling ft atte tory civil government and practical methods of teaching in the afternoon professor parker lectured on geography as aa a basis of all the natural sciences 0 mrs parker lectured on the delsarte 1 system of physical culture miss mies heffron illustrated and explained free hand drawing by use of the blackboard in the eveni evening nir professor parker lectured on I 1 A artist or artisan on tuesday mrs mr parker gave another lecture on the delsarte system professor parker followed on geography miss heffron continued her lessons and illustrations on the blackboard in the afternoon professor parker descanted des canted on number work mrs parker followed with a short lecture on articulation on wednesday the forenoon was occupied oci I 1 by the following gramme pro amro parker on Dele delsarte arte and his bis system colonel parker in teaching reading miss He faring on modeling in clay and sand and the german professors in music the little historical sketch mrs parker gave of delsarte intensified the gereral beneral interest in the discoveries he had made and the deductions from those discoveries colonel parker opened up new thought for the guidance of the teacher in this branch of education quite a discussion was maintained on en the question of wholes vs elementary parts decided in favor of ent entireties irettes in oon con elusion he said he was the best misunderstood man in america and that bat there was something in this mountain air that shortened time the clay modeling was so applied as to illustrate the relative values of weights and measures and as an ald aid to comprehensive illustration of many other studies is used both to stimulate observation and impress retention the music lesson progressed ir etva in that of yesterday and instead of being an obscure and d difficult science out 01 ol the reach of common mortals music seemed to be easy of access it was announced that the citizens of provo would tender a reception at the tabernacle to professor and mrs parker for the entire class clan teachers teaching and teachers studying WEDNESDAY EVENING tho the library was crowded to suffocation again this evening to hear bear colonel parkers lecture on the child the colonel to is a very easy and fin fahed asbed speaker reminding one but for the difference in theme of charles fills ellis the subject of having the stenographic reports of mr parkers lectures published in pamphlet form was laid before the students and decided affirmatively the following la Is an extensive synopsis of the lecture follow fellow Tea teachers cherp the unrealized possibilities of development in the child to is a theme for our earnest eon con olde ration and that development we owe to the next generation the whole question lies fee in the education ol of the little chil obil dand there Is i no work too good no thought too desire to deep no endeavors too noble to be concentrated in this one grand t effort it means better brines higher morals nobler aspiration the love of god and the perpetuation of our republic the little child lies cradled in its mothers arm aref its life a dream of bliss earth if servant the sun its toy its surroundings a sign and symbol of the universe my life has been spent among little children and I 1 think I 1 have learned to read them a little I 1 say that the child is a born savage do not be startled by the assertion for when we have become better acquainted with our ancestors we will respect them more much of our mental strength and vigor the spiritual fervor as well as physical superiority we inherited from a savage ancestry have you ever known a little boy who did not wish to dig a cave and live in it who did not take unbounded satisfaction in making himself proficient with the bow and arrow and dearly hold in his heart an ideal of savage seclusion and independence I 1 remember one boy who dug a cave in an island and aad there defended himself against all intruders though there were none he fortified his island and built a tort fort at the most exposed point determined no DO vessel should pass pan up or down without hearing from him and his tin gun the fact was no boat cc could U ld pass because the water was too shallow but there be fought imaginary battles re velling in the expression of his savage instincts how children delight in robinson crusoe because of its savagery the properly constituted child lives a mythical life just as an soon as it begins to got get a little light it begins to create and people a world of its own a world in which it is the central centra figure living moving and having an exalted being can you not remember when with a few broken bits of plate and two shingles under a tree you kept house bouse received and entertained visitors visitor delighted with your shadowy guests then there are the mothers stories told to the happy child as an it closes its eyes in slumber and some have forbidden this and tell you if a child could not bresk bres k the bonds of reality he would be a brute but he breaks these theme bonds looks beyond and he sees a future life and a world outside of his bis present surroundings surrounding there are those who forbid fairy tales to children saying tell a child ony only the truth of all such I 1 would ask the question what is trual I 1 can fancy the abe halo of glory around the head of the lover of mankind when pilate asked him what to is truth our good old puritan fathers insisted on truth but failed to see am understand the truth in rich image tiou lion with its inspiring beautifying effects in crude ha buma the old geographer peter pal parley walt fusing beautiful truth through im imse active symbols gave us a map I 1 y led it with a country called fab estioc in the centre of africa I 1 learned bound ila it 1 there is no such cc chui coui he gave the children absolute hood clothed in the classic draper drap knowledge with the forged t truth burned into her brow have you ever contemplated sweet truths trutha hidden in the para par which he gave to those not s enough to bear naked truth in I 1 holy sympathies the expectant livi inquiry wakened for the Emai smallest lest i god gods goda a creatures bythe by the fairy tale told tolett little child they help us to learn i the exquisite purpose in the mort moot IB nute ol of creations to hate coq tog ing to love all things the earth coo confronted fronted savage nun and said paid what am 1 I and maa replied thou art god I 1 burths but stars confronted him with the mm question what aber ar wt wf and said surely thou art god and ir shaped but the sun with power KS glory asked the question orce and he said rhou art god bf through his consciousness there st 15 the thought of a power beyond this and his soul reached out th boundless space to commune with I 1 infinite little children worship the stars are nail holes in the floor heaven the grandeur of natu nature eft the divinity within the he child whlor h his bis tongue cannot express the myat lost ical to is to him the beginning of rt religion why have we become a race bound t he be sordid and soul slaying realities life it does not net matter what our 11 lip utter our faces speak the death killed when the mythical destroyed in the child life this same condemned faculty it is tt beginning of science it gives wat as treasures of the ages the crystal I 1 HJ ments mento of left in islands of hi sea and upon continents come to Q this way germany has its folk ta that every child knows the child a born naturalist he loves how in boston oner once up a dark and dl dai street I 1 saw a neglected child on OB equally neglected doorstep but u af that be grimed face was a divine sm curious to know what had stirred 1 divinity within its little soul I 1 11 and found that it hold held in baj band a clover blossom that smile i sometimes seen on the faces fa ams of old mm who have led unselfish childlike lis 11 every child has a love for nature aa less iwo some teacher kills it out I 1 knear k a very ordinary boy on a little s farm who pursued the study of g gramby with burning zeal and no nei knew that he be was learning every swamp hill slope stone bax he be explored and knew he stud mud botany no tree nor plant nor dro flow but Is e know kaew its time of opening iti habits of leaf and bud the situations it loved best beef and when that thit boy became a man he taught school for sweaty years before he knew that the new N hampshire farm had been a tutor I 1 la these sciences so far as the theory of books wandered from nature he studied bugs and knew those thit horrid away when he be lifted a stone atone too than that flow flew and three these that crept and aid those that were good for fish bait its he know knew also the partridges pat ridges and wood abu chacks clig out of many a hole that his hi dog tim has baa dug he be bag baa dragged the woodchuck with a hay bay hoe he studied physics he could tell what the weather would be by na nature barometers no music was waa ever fi tweeter than the patter of rain on the attle fatten two feet above his bead F that at he himself had predicted it meant no work and a loop long day flab fish hk fog foi or it if it rained of course he chuld not work out doure booro of natural studies ina ended this road in the little crow cross rord road school house home where wherewith with half a pailon frozen dinner dinnee fellow follo suf he at prisoner among his teacher bad said to me it if that studying on the farm you have been has baa here put in what some kind person books yours youn is the true education these books L come coine lot let us see how near an TO right it they have more or less I 1 tosa than we have already learned it bould have enveloped taht old farm in a blaze blaw of glory and made that log I 1 house bouee the antechamber ante chamber to heaven the starved faculties and repressed expression in drawing sought fur which ane child had bad a decided talent ut just as an he hb was putting the finishing to a lifelike portrait of the teachers teacher the teacher drew something else also whack whacks and the boy drew no more I 1 tell you that was wan a caline crime a sin gin in crashing out with cruel blows and bitter hate a god given talent that pointed only to the chod good and true through the brutal ignorance of a man calling himself a school teacher ohl oh the undeveloped developed oa energy and faulty battling against t gin in and oin sinking king dying beneath the effort aboy looked out upon an ore orchard hard that lay in a deathlike death like sleep beneath beneal h tile the that the resurrection winters snow enow he knew ur would come and exulted in in the a knowledge all nature speaks of the roe resurrection ur one day daj be besaw saw the tree bark shining with the glad blood that mounted up beneath I 1 it L he watched the wiling swelling bu 4 and saw the first palo pale tint of th the a green leaves the final glory of th their banks of IP pink aniuk and white bloom filled JW with delicate fro fragrance grance teemed seemed to his unsullied soul like the voice of god speaking in a new creation he to god for doing it was so grateful sheet of paper and tried that he got a to put his bis emotions into words with yea eyes glowing and ana cheeks checks aflame he be took this story awry of his bis soul not very well wall written to the housekeeper for he bat baa no mother and looked up into her eyes eye for a smile of approval and response xea Tes she was a good woman butcha said if I 1 could not write better than that I 1 would not write at all that is the way that we crush the divine out of children and afterward when they go wrong we call ball it total depravity itell I 1 tell you it is total neg loot can we save the bad boys yep ye it you have ninety nine good ones they must be used to save the one bad ob there are in our schools today and some in days past teachers with great soult souk I they may never have money or fame but they are loving earnest splendid teachers helping in the gran grand work of saving this one bad boy and believing in inspiration and inspiration comes to everyone who tries to bless and save study ways and means hiter tt you have studied the peculiarities of the child and if nothing else will save him love will save him love if jae be can feel it and a terrible crime has been committed if a child has baa been so ao calloused by hatred and ill III usage that his heart ro longer responds to tenderness the clenched fist bet the bent brow and set jaws with eyes glaring hate fiats that we sometimes see in citie sare not total depravity but the settled conviction that his specks a hate bate him and in return he hates all mankind A boy was thrown into a schoolroom and told to got get knowledge with a brutality and a sneer that were blasphemy against all that makes the dignity of manhood when properly directed the conviction was w in his bis soul that nobody cared for him he sat pat sullen aid aad lowering in a cornet cornes a secured ishmael caged but defiant he bad a teacher not a jailor failor she determined to save him she studied him and learned that he loved birds he knew every little feathered songster their time of netting nesting their favorite haunts their notes were a familiar ong tiong s and she found the gateway where love entered his soul se called all the other children around her and got them to tell her all they knew about birds the sullen scowl relaxed was this about birdp knowledge he grew eager for he knew more than they come cocome john J 1 said the he teacher tell ell us what you know about birds he found sympathy companionship his heart dilated he felt lil himself a man he was wae saved go i bless such teachers it the whole end of all religion reli giot save t hundredth and you have saved the world in the afify three years of my life the world has wonderfully change changed sd d there are better times coming for all humanity but do not forget while seated in this beautiful ed ad by all the blessings that are yours that there are millions living astl still 11 in loathsome cellars de barred from all that makes life a blowing blessing there are millions still unborn doomed to a ike fate if it is ever bettered it will be through the discovery and proper sp ap of energies and forces the world is bound together by iron bands and intelligence speed sand it is in on the wings of lightning and progress program should Is I 1 equally rapid there are teachers who aver that there is no moral phase in those three studies with which children are belabored reading writing tic I 1 tell you a child may read himself to damnation cipher himself to canada a refugee from his country and write the seal of his bis own doomun less an in all these studies he sees seen the thoughts of god expressed on the universe ver e they are worse than nothing unless intrinsically good every child begins the studies of the sciences science it is for the teacher to continue it in the same lines that god points out the child is a born natura naturalist liaL there is not one step of that but to is Int intrinsically ringi moral and it is the finger of god pointing the way to true education every child to is a born worker I 1 see you differ from me you are thinking of the child of six or seven years y care 1 whose mother |