| Show I MODERN CHILD IS T TOO Mud MUCH I Individuality Overlooked ii in Present Method of Training Training Training Train Train- ing Children LET THE SOUL DICTATE Dr 11 1 James L. L Hughes Points Higher Ideas In iii the Training of or orthe if the tue Yom S That nil all modern education tl rl I Is an and nd should be he alon along the he lines JInes of ot th idea de delint that lint every HY child has a n special al individuality or 01 selfhood that lint Sh should bo hu developed de tie not dwarfed was as the hf keynote of oC the address delivered b by Dr James Jame L. L Hugh Hughes s at the lie A Assembly emlI hall II last las evening It was one of a series o of lectures to be he delivered b by Dr Hughes on Oil The Thie Ways Way in Which Childhood 1 Is Warped to bw be given gl under under- the thc auspices auspices aus nuS of or the University of oC Utah summer sum sum- mel mei school After ACter stating the general proposition tion ion that thai all nil modern education centers around the thc one Olie great glent thought of the childs child's special individuality Dr Hughes HughI Hugh Hugh- es said that lint every child possesses three great t tendencies which prove his special spa spa- cia cial I Individuality First of all nil ho lie loveto loves love to kb 10 things Second he loves to tic do things thing that he plans pians himself Und tAni nd third the child loves love to work with other children that Is 19 to pin play piny with other children and amid playing Is really rally the he childs child's work Three Faculties Dominate Every child chIlli has hns those three faculties faculties ties ies said Dr Hughes but hut every nan mon ha hasn't nl them every woman hasn't them heiti Our Din system of ot twinIng has warped them the el else these three tendencies tendencies ten tell would continue to be the this dominating dominating do do- ones J In Imi our OUt lives hives ThE ThE- They ThEare arc are note more Important than the Ilie physical orlie or orthe orthe the lie Intellectual lit life of or a bo boy because they hey al' al are the lie elements clements of high Christian Chris Chrls- tian character and the saddest thing In II all nil the tins history of tiC the lie race is the tho dwarfing of the these hose c threw three e central characteristics char char- of mankind But this has haR been done one and It was waR done Ilone because we te did not recognize the child as a divine lne representative e and alid therefore didiot did dill not reverence him as h h. h tle deserved er ed toC to tobe be he C reverenced c have lIt Too Much uch What hat has the word training come cometo cometo to mean In our language e It ha has ha's come lo to mean some form funn of adult in In- In Wo Vio have llave taught a n thousand and rid times as ns much as aR we ought to teach achi y We havo have trained ton ten thousand times mes as much as ns we ought to train in I the tue wrong direction Solomon said Raid Train up a child In iii the way he should go We Ve co have havo trained rallied the th child In tho ho wa way fly he sho- sho should ld not go We e havo have made children negative when God Gall meant them to lJ be positive Q e and that Is why tho IC m men meil n null and women of ot today tire ore nag HOK- r lve Each Bach soul has hal hu Its lis own work vork to do 10 and Its Its' own I rower power o lr to do that lint work worle oric and tho he only way the soul can canoW oW to 10 be Le conscious of or that power Is 15 Isto to the toLa bo freo to grow con consciously clou ly toward God Cod od every da dayt ur tf C Its life IlCe Obedience Is IR one omie of tho ho best words In I tho ho language langua c but there thero are aro many people collie who think that under the new riots mode iode of oC education e we do not ask children children chil chIli dren ren to bo be obedient Oh yes t s w we do dOl but Ut we do not nut ask them theIrs to be subservient lent I can r remember when We thought that hint If Ir our children carried out Ut our OUt Ideas they were good children n Nov No ott we tte have hae a l different Idea The Tho Thelea Idea lea a that I have In iii training my ho boy Is not ot to 0 make him conscious of ot his suh subservience to me itie but conscious oCH of oC for law I Ithe Is H to law Reverence the 10 true Idea of oC obedience and antI that hint thatIs hintI Is I the type of or training we are arc trying to ring bring about according to the he new revelation so 80 that thc these e three great tendencies shall shah work worl to achieve e and transform in harmony harmon with law Old Idea Itla Wrong ron That old Idea of training was wrong because wo wu failed falletI to recognize the lie majesty of or the soul created In thu tho hoes docs It mean menn Ima Image nage e of God Goll What then In modern education It means ten to train just this That we are trying children to be self-active self so as not notEl notto notto to El dwarf arf these three great central elements ale ele ments of oC their nature And what does activity self mean Not Nut to do that which my lilY teacher tells me to do ilo lo but that lint which God Goel reveals lo to me What a glow fills the soul when one unc gives a anew invention to the tIle race or a new new v revelation to tho ho race or Intel interprets some wile of oC the revelations already given education Is to greatest work in The lie orIts of or ofUs kindle a human soul along the line anti and to kindle the Us Its Ls greatest Rl power soul o children of the lie present lay day whether by music art literature manual man man- ual training domestic science clence or what hat no not IH is tile the aim of ot the lie modern ell educator DI Dr Hughes will continue his hh lectures lee lee- o'clock this I at ot 3 lures tures ures today giving gl one at S o'clock this afternoon and amid one of or the assembly room evening veIling in tho lie building Both Doth are free Cree and null the public will be he welcome |
