Show RURAL SCHOOL DISCUSSED AT GA CATHERINO OF SCHOOL FOLKS Election of County County Super Super- Superintendent Superintendent Hel Held to Be Bc Bad Practice MANY Y UNTRAINED Senator Smoot Speaks at Utah Educational Dinner Party Party WASHINGTON FebBy Feb 24 By ByThe ByThe ByThe The Associated Two Press Two com coin com complaints plaints against the system In nany stAtes of oC electing county school superintendents by popular popular ballot were made In addrel addresses es today to units of the department of 01 suo su- superintendence su superintendence ot of the tho National Ed- Ed Education Ed Education association The department of rural education tion was urged by Miss Florence Hale supervisor of rural duca tion In Maine to work that our sup superintendents may be lead lead- leadIng lead Inc log Ing educators educator and not leading politicians The Th office offic should be betaken betaken betaken taken out of politics she ahe said laId so I that the superintendent shall not have to spend a considerable pOi portion por- por tion of his time In preparing for the next nut election and in gen out out cen the tho non professional non nal can can- candidate candidate can candidate who often ollen wins favor favor by bythe the he type of appeal What Is good enough for our fathers Is good enough nough for us UNTRAINED TEACHERS Thomas Vf W Butcher president ot of the Kansas State Teachers col coll col- col lege l ge told the national council or of education that a horde of un- un untrained Untrained un untrained trained teachers continue to find ns mainly in rural schoOls where the th responsibility for Cor train Inc Ing them falls to the county su superintendent Unfortunately he ho sa said I this official I Is chosen choen In most or of o our states slates by popular ballot and Is toot too often a man who Is unfitted to 10 undertake the tho traIninG of these teachers Criticism of new methods of makinI courses course of study In pub pub- public lic Jle seh schools was voiced by Fred Frell- Frederick Frederick erick S S Breed professor of education at the University of Chicago a point sessIon ie of the Educational uso- uso asso and National Society of COllego o Teachers of Education CURRICULUM REFORM We W are living JIving In a II period of stimulating curriculum reform DurInG the past quarter of II a cen- cen century cen century tury the tho th curriculum has been guided largely by the behavior of children Now It Is to be based on the tho th behavior of adults he cited results of scientific studies t show that courses course of study pat pat- patterned patterned pat patterned on the dally daily lives of adults Is Inadequate A warning that Incurable harm lay ay be done b by b giving children Inferiority complexes as sounded by Armand B U W Mit- 8 l principal of McKinley High ool Ani SL St fit Louis T Mo to A the tho Na- Na ial al Association of Secondary Principals He H said laid tooth too th h publicity of the th classifies classifies- of students might lead to talk tak of mutt s a dumb bells and mor Ule i Ie Ic the Group croup meetings of offit of the department of super super- super nee nce continued today dele dale deleto ito Ito to the th convention carried I voting for the president or of 1 Four candidates ten en placed In nomination j UTAH DiNNER Special patch I Feb eb The 4 of Utah Ulah are re the tb equal of of bo be found In the nation ly Iy Justify the money the they eland dared Reed need Smoot address delivered at the tho miner at the th Hotel Willard of the th program of the th Lion Ion lon of ot the th department of superintendence of ot the th National now In ses- ses session ses session sion Distinguished I guests cuesta at the th din din- dinner din dinner ner ncr who spoke poke besides Senator Sm ot Included Justice GeorG C ore Sutherland Commissioner of E Edu- Edu Education Edu Education u- u cation William Spry commissioner of the th general land office Congressman Don B Col- Col Colton Col ton Col-ton ton and Congressman E H 0 O Loath Loath- Loath erwood Dr C N Jensen super super- superintendent of public Instruction for Utah was Willi In charge charce of the din din- dinnet din dinner ner net and Introduced Superintend Superintendent ant ent G 0 N Childs of or the th Salt Lake City schools school as toastmaster After Arter the th dinner announcements announcement a ao o the third annual national sum sum- summer mer flier school to bo be b held at the Utah Agricultural As colle college e begin begin- beginning fling ning Juno Jun 14 were made mad |