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Show . V. OP U. NEWS BUREAU "We haven't thought enough of the quality of education," said Julia Jul-ia Wade Abbot, specialist In kindergarten kinder-garten work of the Bureau of Education Educa-tion at Washington D. C, speaking before the faculty of the school of education at the University of Utah. "I believe the work with the younger students should be extremely scientific." scien-tific." - A state kindergarten convention Is now being hsld at the Hotel Utah, under the direction of the kindergarten kindergar-ten department of the University of Utah in cooperation with G. N. Child, dty superintendent of public Instruction. Instruc-tion. "All we want is a fifty-fifty chance" said Miss Abbot, speaking of legislative legis-lative measures. "We must have fewer children to the teacher. We must think of the child before it Is too Jate. Statistics show that children chil-dren who have been given a kindergarten kinder-garten training go through the grades grad-es in a shorter time and stay in school longer than children who have no kindergarten training." Miss Abbot visited the University rand was very much Impressed with the campus, saying that It was one of the most beautiful Univorslty sites she had ever seen. |