Show TILE THE PE SWINGS S BACK I I Thirty years ago o schoolmen guvo I pretty much all of or their attention to fn Instructing pupils In 11 reading reading- writing t. t and arithmetic Included In the readIng reading read read- Ing exercise was spelling and a ina- ina Lf jerRy of ot men and women omen quitting ii school thirty years ago were good k 1 spellers They could write a good Jetter let let- tor ter and the they could figure Little by little new things thIng'S weN I 1 added to the course of or stull study rh Tho Thu was not local to any place It seemed to rise everywhere And It persisted through the years until the pupils have havo been beon loaded with a burden burden burden bur bur- den greater than the they could bear The strongest word of or condemnation of or the modern system was that of or a n wis s 1 man who said Mid They The study everything every- every thing under the sun and learn nothIng noth noth- Ing ing Maybe that was a strong statement state state- ment but It was much too near the truth Now ow the pendulum Is swinging swinging- hack back i The tendency In all schools schools and and that thatIs Is truo true here in Utah as elsewhere throughout the country country Is is to drop the tho fads Cads and concentrate the mind and antI the time of ot pupils on absolute cs essen- essen en- en Hals The change chango is not so radical as lS asto to amount to a revolution But Dut it Jt promises well There seems little doubt the pupils of ot the next ten years l L- L will get more or of of value out of ot their AS at dt rl JI-b JI moro moro moro-j time to consider the individual The i teacher will not be so fearfully driven n as as in the past And It Is reasonable to hope that fewer studies tudie and better command of ot them will bo be the result |