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Show 7 MAR L. i 1898 f' si A -- univir.;; rv : c- - v. utah. Official Organ of the Utah Federation of Womens Clubs. $1.00 YOL. fAopal PEE PEICE FIVE ITJEJLtt. SALT LAKE CITY, MARCH III. Training of Children. H. K. WOLFE. We are coming to recognize, that there can be no separation of intellect from morality or of religion from daily life. We have had quite enough of education by jerks. We now understand that character is formed chiefly outside the Sunday-schoo- l, largely indeed, outside the week-da- y school. Along with this notion is the sister idea, that every walk of life contributes to character formation, and that the public school must realize its responsibilities and opportunities in this direction. We must immediately do away with the doctrine .that school is only for intellectual training; that the teacher is not responsible for the moral training of children; that knowledge without conscience is worth striving for. The teacher has no other duty comparable with that of inspiring the children to right living and right feeling and right hoping. In the first place there are certain bad features which seem to be inherent in the very nature of the public schools. Children associate together, good, bad, and indifferent; and it is unfortunately too nearly true that all tend to the level of the lowest, instead of a lump of leaven saving the whole batch. The public schools are doubtless bad, worse than they need be; but they are necessary for the right de , We may velopment of the child. reform them, but we must not boycott them. We look for the school for aid in raising the staudard of morality in all NO. 9. or administrative inconvenience should be allowed to touch the possession of such treasures. Such a teacher is more sacred than priest or vestal. Such a one is the hope of the world. walks of life. If a thing is bad for children, but First let us consider the teacher. She is the chief factor in the cultivacomparatively harmless for adults, the tion of the higher nature of school teacher must act as children should, children. It is not too much to say and leave the finer discriminations to that the teacher may exert more in- parents. If moderation is safe, but fluence on half the children in her extreme use unsafe, the teacher must room, than the parents themselves do. be a total abstainer. Extreme honesty is often accompaShe may also fail to touch their lives at all. I do not believe in the hyster- nied by fanaticism. If they are inical exaggeration of this influence and separable, then give me the fanatic the consequent responsibility. But I for a teacher of children, and I shall would not have in the schoolroom a hope for their intellectual salvation teacher who does not recognize in a later in life. Integrity, wholeness of common-sens- e character, we must have, even at the way the enormous influence of her personality upon the cost of a broad mind. Under existing circumstances, we children under her charge. Children are more difficult to demay emphasize several points in the school routine. Most teachers give ceive than school boards or superintendents, in regard to the character marks of credit for work done, and of a teacher. Their confidence is not few have the time to examine exercises carefully enough to form objective always rightly placed, but the children should be the sole judge where judgments. The whole theory of marks and prizes and grades and the character of the teacher is conhonors ranks and badges and (?) cerned. Frankness, honesty, truthfulness, is an attempt to build up an artificial while the practice is sincerity, simplicity, devotion , these intellectuality; are the springs from which character scarcely more than the sacrifice of the benecomes, and blessed is the school that moral ideal without appreciable has them embodied in its teacher. fit to the intellectual nature in the Blessed are the children who come in long run. The theory is false. It should always have been the aim daily contact wito such a personality. No amount of brains or knowledge of of the teacher to raise the ideal and to methods, can supply the lack of any ennoble the motive for exertion. The of these qualities. No amount of more she grows herself, the less she SPECIAL BARGAINS IN LADIES In Iiatest Spiring Liast. opposite postoffihe. 5, 1898. CZEIETTS. political puli . FINE HIGH GRADE SHOES Piriee $2.50 to $4.50. NEW YORK CASH STORE, |
