Show OF written b M jones with aching hand handi and bleeding feet we wo dig bud lud heap la Is stone on stone we bear the burden and the heat of that long da and wish vere tn ere done not till the hour of light returns all we hue dicen the story of ed education history has been a draina dramatic tic I 1 one lu in the lie daba da a nilsen liebi our fathers and mothers othera ui were driven brorn from their homes and out onto the plains 0 of f the great western prairies there are historical accounts of lion they prated to god that the tile 1 in 1 able to baiad lionas for or n the children ebil dien and phu gio them thein the advantages 0 of intellectual training that had been tile dreams of tile founders of for god had declared that no one can be paved med in ignorance and that the glory of god is intelligence t mormon people liae always dreamed of high mental attain feht this is shown in the his ilia lory tory of the educational development of utah and the story is ony one that every utahn should he be proud to relate to hie his hildren the school in early ds made for the character and tha the real worth they took the tile raw material and molded it into beings of per so acty anity and culture the first school in tit U utah wag was bopf opened ned in october 1847 it was conducted in an old military tent shaped like an ordinary indian wigwam thero there were hut but fe few rough logs logs for seats and the teaL hara desk was an old camp erool the was opened just three weeke weeks after tho the in the and was taught lj by mary dilworth Dilwor lh seven pupils enrolled the among whom was wm W riter present regent 0 of the IT ot of U the tenta books coie isted of a faw few copies of the tile bible some of webster s spelling looks books and some copies of soine used in N a it vo the pupils used charcoal for pen ails silo and did the sr writ ting upon the smooth sur facie of logs nei the schools of early days x ore primitive the people had gone bick to nature anil and we building from froin tile ground up tip yet the vi era ere far above binl bit could be expected of an agricol wro community and one that wag a i isolated ted from civilization A great force entered into the daily and locations of the colonists they were ere religious religions abts and were devoted lu to tho prin ciple that upon their own self sell effort did their saha salvation tion depend they had schools among them since their das in ili Is nauvoo and kirtland they had bros parley and oreon orson pratt who were mere not only students of the bible but wore were scientists of 0 high degree their works on astronomy have liae been read by many noted amen cane and pronounced scholarly larl y the morman people hae always alway been adv advocates oates of the tile study of foreign language languages this it duo due partly to their desire to preach the tile gospel to all nations erom eroin the adent of thu the people in utah the school books were brought across the plains by every company not only in salt lake city were schools opened at its founding but in every village and town a school TB was the first tiling thing to be started in manti mantl the first school was by jeese jesse W fox who to tau taught lit the tile common branches br auche algebra I 1 gara geometry and somo of t the he maural sciences cea lie collected a I very ery exten extensive eie herbarium of part of the country and was instrumental in a free public library in connection with the sunday school of tin this s town mrs browning in a letter tc to mr E it 11 antherton Ant lerton hi in 1887 ani in 1 I armed in tit arowna I 1 fort ort ott 27 ISM that winter I 1 taught school ill tit a to log house situ attI about fiel blocks loek of the pro rent 1100 depot it i to not baji FIN if in thet d 4 ill da B to leach teach school owing 1 l ing to the tie circumstances of tile people ve we had to collect letters from front scraps of piper and old book these we ae pirated on asid paddies and also enado letters on oil till ineide inside and outside of the childrens handa in ili this wa they alie le arned to read As early as 1850 schools were constructed in ili nearly ever oer vard ard and on oil nor it 11 1850 the tirel first university of tile boat was as start ed under tile direction of clinn chats cellar spencer the price of ad inis sion was thirty per quarter id it 1852 the tile legislature leeoin lily passed tile first public school law in the history of the tho territory no glory of tile pioneers liae has been their schools which hae lime been built b 1 their toil and hard labor 1011 toil and vind teara tears have 1 tile burden of tile west ahey taine callie to a wilderness and changed it to a place of education and culture their greatest work wa was education and schools liao limo grown up under their cuirence cui dence they birong and upright men and women ready fo 0 o battle with the v ild hilderness erness tile aqil and teara of tile 1 the back ground of the tile schools aid the tile school system of today did not spring up tip in a night but has been blow work and steady elow slow growdis growt li what ought vo 0 o not to lull tg ii we wo ere liy ily it 11 these for file iu cation it if wo we whist alir fathers laul laid out for tie we oil eliell I 1 I 1 honor ilium them may Y 13 all arila of or the spirit of tile pioneer who founded our glori curione lu rione oils of fit sho bools ola |