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Show The Summer School. Arrangements are Hearing completion comple-tion ifor a six weeks summer school to be held in Piovo, beginning Juiy 9th, and adjourning August 17th. This school, that has become such an educational feature, held its first session ses-sion In Provo in 1891. Only home talent was represented, but the benefits bene-fits were so marked that in 1S02 the promoters, at the risk of paying a good round sum out of their own pocketB, employed Colonel F. V. Parker of the Cook County normal to lecture on ped-agcgy ped-agcgy to head the faculty, and his wile, scarcely second to the colonel as an educator, came with him; also to graduates from the school, specialists. In 1893 tour hundred teachers assembled assem-bled to hear the author of our school text books on psychology apply the new light to the science of teacuing. Each school has been a success, and each has marked a long stride in progress. The interest manifested by newspapers is a good index of the public value of such i movements, and while very little was said about the first except in an encouraging en-couraging way by the local Dress, as a local matter, in :92 and '93 the 01 Salt Lake dailies and tne Inter-Mountain tducator had their special rt-porters rt-porters present. Again, a fair comparison com-parison made by the teachers who did attend and those who did not, gives county superintendents an idea of the value of these summer schools. The school of '91 bids fair to out-strip all previous efforts. Instead of two weeks, it will extend to six. Instead of one class of instruction for all grades of teachers, arrangements will be made so that from the primary teacher to the most advanced, all will be able to get exactly what they want. Every i iciiuuei win aunuowieugo some wea& points, some deficiencies to themselves atlegst, and the summer school gives them an opportunity to put all uieir time and energy on one 6tudy or to make a general advance all along the line, as they deem best and most profitable profit-able to thim selves. Dr. B A. Hinsdale, professor of the science and art of teaching in the Uui-ve.sity Uui-ve.sity of Michigan, will stand at the head cf the faculty this year, sup-plimented sup-plimented by specialists selected by B. Guff, Jr., principal of the B. Y. A. with a hue discrimination discrim-ination for their special value to our teachers, Mr. Ciull lias, since taken his mastei 's tiegree, ot-tn visiting among the principal educational institutions of the United State-s. All the home talent we 1 ave will be called into active use, not only the entire faculty of the academy, numbering twenty-nine, twenty-nine, hut prominent educatore from other home schools, an .1 a number of county superintendents. Courses of instruction will be given in the common school branches, Including In-cluding book-keeping and civil government, govern-ment, elementary sciences, medical physio o v and hygiene, English classics, higtier mathematics, theory and practice of teact in psychology, j history of education, school management manage-ment and school supervision. A kindergarten kinder-garten and a complete normal training I school will form a special feature. Aho a modf-1 district school of eight grades wiil be in daily session in which teachers will bo trained in the art of teaching and managing a school on the tbeorv of the new education, flow to prepare and pr-sent lessons wili;i eceive special attt ntion,and on the work (,f each pmclice, teacheis will be carefully criticised by specialists, the deiec's noted and suggestions offered as to proper rem dies. Utah connfv lias already decided to hold her official institute here, in order to take advantage of Dr. Hinsdale's lectures, which will be given during the last two weeks of the session, and present indications are that several other important counties will do the same. |