Show j Out of Style 1 a froshman at the the i winner of the Founders' Day oration Here is her a provocative thought on the problem of Formal education appeared in Utah just three weeks after the pioneers And just three years later the University of Deseret was The was years ago this February The school was in the words of Brigham educate the masses and to elevate all the people to the fullest extent of their Through its efforts to fulfill this that now called the University of led the fight against But now the attainment of that goal is being What is challenging the educational system of We need only read a and we see the first challenge But there is another challenge more important than the one handed down by our We have been content to maintain that system which placed our stated schools high on the national In doing we forgot that change requires We've been somewhat like the hare in that ancient You don't have to go backwards to lose a race merely stand still or go to sleep while someone else makes constant The world now is not the same as it was in Here at home things have changed the value of the dollar and the population tide Vast changes were needed to meet the different but not The State Board of Education took no significant step toward making a broader curriculum Do most Utah high schools offer analytic geometry and Do they offer much besides plastic and wood-working for technical Has the state legislature ever curtailed any major project such as roads or bridges for handouts to according to the latest education is the sole item on Governor Clyde's which will receive an increase over his But our increases aren't advances we're barely hold- ing ground because of the rising cost of By we will have to pay three times as much as we are paying now just to have an equal quantity and quality of How much more will be needed to improve We can't afford to be like the old carriage makers around the turn of the century who thought the automobile was a fad which could never replace old We can't stockpile buggy-whips and harnesses because horseless carriages don't use We we can't afford but we're surely We're using a 1945 plane to fight a 1961 Just as the carriage makers and the harness makers switched to the as the are yielding to the must we make way for educational We must demand higher standards from the university to the more more courses in every field of and higher The list has fust Does all this sound like a Utopian Look how many have two splendid new Shouldn't we challenge them to pay a few more pennies a year for I will not believe that our state has no recourse until every taxable proposition has been Such a good investment as the minds of our people is really not a financial for it reaps immeasurable Haven't we all known some bright boy or girl in high school or grade school who grasped difficult material with Merely because their family was they were denied future They became a truck driver or dime-store How many similar minds have we allowed to Would the Russians lose such a Again you've known some fellow whose hands could work but few classes were offered in which he could make them Even those that were offered didn't prepare him for competition in the labor market of the He was forced to take classes in which he has little skill and no How many machinists and technologists have slipped through our Would these talents be wasted in Our pioneers sacrificed much blood and to wrench a living from the but they had enough remaining to bring culture and education to grow in their Why can't in a day when bare existence is not a problem for the provide a comparable amount of culture and Haven't we some blood and sweat to spare for the Let's make a good thing nearly W have the This school has graduated some of the finest medical most noted and best legal minds in the And they're ready to help If we face this challenge with intelligence and we will TRIXIE YOUNG |