Show DEAN DEAN BENNION GIVES SPEECH Utah Educator Appears at Convention In Texas DALLAS Tex Feb Char 25 25 Char acter education calls for tor discovery of the th childs child's child potentialities for and how v best to develop these potentialities Into actual powers that will be constantly exercised toward realization of the highest social said ald Milton Bennion dean of ot the school of ot education University of Utah Ulah before the national con convention ot or state superintendents I of public Instruction today This point of ot view makes evident the fact that character education is not apart from education edl a ai a whole Development of o th tb childs child powers rower In service vice of o moral ends are the constituent elements of character education Among the tho essential conditions or of character In addition to good are ar good health both bolh physical and mental and good environment has como come to be rec rec- rec- rec recognized as a a most powerful factor In character formation teacher Parent organizations should l deal not only with problems lems hems or of o home and school but with community problems In la gen gen- general ten oral eral cral as they effect the moral wel- wel wel welfare fare tare of ot youth These Thes associations associations should should be effective working organizations not simply enter entertainment and debating clubs Much Mucho of the th work of ot both home and school may be nullified by com corn community community conditions all an too common where the civic responsibilities responsibilities of the mass of citizens are taken lightly The school Itself should from the beginning train children in moral habits and attitudes As the pupil grows erows older greater em ern emphasis emphasis may be placed upon de Ce development of ideals and powers ot of self direction This will call for more direct moral and civic instruction This dos does not mean mere exhortation but direct ob ob- objective ob- ob objective objective study of ot problems of ot con con- conduct conduct conduct duct as they arise In dally daily ex ex- ex experience ex and ot or social and problems as they anise In the I community For want of ot this typo type of ot Instruction people often have ha misjudgment as to what Is I right in a n complex social situa situa- situation situation tion lion HIgh schools especially should give greater attention to instruction in this field I |