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Show sasssj; " H;'i A PEDAGOGICAL PILGRIMAGE; ;i PPJ-p PPJj ( The dltlerent Salt Lake papers have i j been waving a glad lianci to the teach- B , j ers of the state and we hope that the B I local pedagogues will (lock thither In PB. great numbers next week in grasp It. iB . Very few professions give so much PPJ leisure and so many opportunities for H., self lmProve(Icnt as that of teaching. Bi j Teachers may be roughly divided into B two classes: The first, usually made B i p or the younger members or the pro PB" 4 f fesslon, welcomes every opportunity B' for new educational Ideas and is never B , I weary in seeking arter them. Their Bj, ' t youth and inexperience make them PB i welcome teachers' meetings as a desert PPj. f traveler runs to drink from a spring. iB ? On the other hand there are. the older Bf s teachers. Those who have acquired a iB ' j! fund of common sense and experience, IB t J who have dropped all possible red B' t tape, who shudder at the term child B psychology.whoare Inexpressibly bored Ba by educational ideals (they have them B t V but'they don't talk about them all the PB l w time), and who, when vacation comes, PB '' ' "ee t0 Pces where teachers do not B ' -congregat., We respect and admire PB '' both classes of teachers and exhort the PBl f llrst to go to Suit Lake next week. PPJ; I The branlest men of the state and B, t tno or threc'of the nation's great iBi i teachers will ba there to give ttiem PPJ- t ideas Salt Lake housewives have B been busy putting their guest; chain B' : PHiMPIBPfltPAi PPPPPJPPjuyLfTtesTK bcrs in order, so that they may give a hospitable, shelter "to ttoltlng lady teachers, while the men-will find the hotels equally eager, and even more so, to receive hem. The ''program prepared for the year's meetlnga goes far beyond that ot any prevlouayear. State teaehers' me'etlng under the preaent admlniatratlon do not mike an antl-o)mac with each year. Last year the program wu good. Thla year It'is better. Men like Dr. Merrill of Salt.Ike, Dr. Chamberlala of Provo, Dr. Wldtaoe of Loganand Dr. Schurman Schur-man of Cornell are the kind of lectrfr ers at whoae feet we gladly sit and we' trust" that bo Cache valley teacher will neglect hli chance to do so next week. . |