Show BOX ELDER COUNTY TEACHERS INSTITUTE the teachers institute held at the box elder high school on saturday last was one of the most interesting and profitable that has ever been held the art supervisor miss miller had a large and and unique collection of work in drawing and sewing on exhibition in one of 0 the large class rooms the walls walla were completely coverer covered with specimens of clever handicraft there there were vere splendid samples of 0 all sorts sortie of needle work of paper cutting of drawings from still life landscapes and conventional designs in the domestic science work there was a good exhibition of cooking which the girls are doing at their own homes under school supervision the musical side of school life was well represented during the days exercises by childrens choruses song drills and by special vocal and instrumental numbers dr lindsay of the national society for the conservation of vision salt lake city and prof henry peterson of the ogden high school were the speakers of the occasion the former gave an illustrated lecture on the eye structure and eye diseases that was highly interesting and profitable he gave some statistics regarding the number of blind who have become so thru lack of care arid and proper attention he regards it as a public calamity that our nation has h over blind people and that practically nothing is done to prevent blindness he cited as an illustration that holland has made some effort to minimize blindness and in consequence has but blind people to a million of population whereas iceland where no measures are taken to reduce the number of blind has blind to a million population ile ho thought preventative measures la in our state and nation should be enacted prof pro henry peterson took for h his is topic education is a growth from within and illustrated ills his point from the writings of such men as john fiske alfred russell wallace J 1 cliola qa urray paul UI unis and william james he explained the purpose of the prolonged period of infancy or of plasticity in in man he spoke interestingly also of the meaning of the presence in man of the various instincts and show how they should lie be utilized by the parent and teacher he illustrated also the 13 of instincts and showed how instincts cn be made available in educational processes in the e afternoon einson prof peterson spoke albe informally ithe to the high school tea teachers r s on the subjects of 0 school to life and the elective system ile he contends that the school should not only fill them the needs of the community in a general way but that it should be adapted to every individual of a community he set forth also the idea that a public institution to be of digest service must receive the support and endorsement of tho the entire community he advocated the idea also that the opportunity or of choice in the election of subjects in the high school is the very principle that will contribute most moat to the development of the individual ile he tria traced the history of the elective system showing how it grew naturally out 0 of an attempt to widen the 0 old id classical cours courses ea |