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Show EDUCATORS END CONFERENCE Two Weeks' Dlscus$lont of Vocational and Part Time Educational Problems Finished. With tho mcetliiBs of Friday, August 8, tho Utnh Vorutloniil ami Junior Extension Ex-tension Kriucntlonul Conforenco was brought to a closso. Tho Conforenco, with which has been held tho 1'aclflc Const Ileglonal Conference for Part Time Education, has occupied for the last two weeks the center of attention lit the Unlvornlty of Utah. On the campus and In tho lecture hnlla have gathered not only the local school principals, vocational directors, and city and county superintendents from the corners and highways of our state, but our neighbors, Novada, Arizona, Ari-zona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon nnd Washington havo contributed of their best bruins and attention to tho c'onMtf-erutlon c'onMtf-erutlon of the problems of the boy ami tho girl. Discussion has been free und lively and It Is believed much good has resulted from the conferences, In fact, some havo made bold to pro-nounco pro-nounco It tho greatest educational achievement of lccent experience. While It Is nn Impossible task to summarlzo so rich a series ,of contributions contri-butions to tho field of education without with-out losing a. very great deal, yet It may provo worth while to attempt some crystallization of the largo and broad questions arrived at. It Is be-Moved be-Moved that a clearer adjustment will bo effected between tho boys' nnd girls' clubs and tho workers under the Smith Hughes Act than formerly, and that hereafter tho two features of activity will mora nearly assume their proper proportions and relationship. relation-ship. School work In agricultural lines mny take on a broader nspect and the commonly so-cnllcd cultural subjects sub-jects bo made to conform rather mors directly to tho needs of every day. Possibilities In tho Industrial world not formerly realized have been pointed point-ed out, espcclully for tho girls. Finally, thn boy and the girl and the conscientious mother nnd father should bo grateful to tho Conference for the making of converts to tho doctrine of supplying their most urgent needs. The Conforenco has emphasized education edu-cation for something, as distinguished from mere education. A clearer conception con-ception of vocational education; n keener appreciation of tho need for vocational education, and for women as well as for men ; nnd for the realization real-ization of tbeso needs, the demand for efficient, practical, experienced, professionally pro-fessionally trained teachers who will (o Into the work with a missionary spirit, Is the summary of the Conference Confer-ence as made by one of the keen educators edu-cators participating Id It. |
