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Show w , 1 ii.Cl uguen, Ulin, DR. E. FJ. HOAIj ADDRESSES 1 TEACHERS' CONVENTION Call Attention to the Handicaps Suffered by Defective Chil. dren and Tells How to Discover the Weaknesses and Apply Remedies Teachers Are Welcomed by Hy-rum Hy-rum Pingree, President of the Board of Education. tn Educators from Weber. Davis. Mor. gan and Box Elder counties are In Ogden today attending the sessions of the district educational convention conven-tion which Is being held lu the assembly as-sembly room of the high school. While most of tho teachers arrived In Ogden this morning, many came last evening and there are others who did not reach the city until this afternoon. Dr. Ernest B. Hoag of Berkeley, Ca) , was the principal speaker at the loreuoon session. Ho lectured on the subject. "Physical Handicaps of Children Chil-dren and How to Recognize Them." Dr. Hoag will lecture at 7 o'clock this evening before the teachers taking for his subject. ' Some Undlscoered Tragedies of Childhood." The lecture v ill be Illustrated. Mrs Lucia Lowe was the speaker at the afternoon session. Mrs Lowe is of the Prang Institute of Chicago and her lecture was along the lines of instructing children in arL The lectures of the morning and afternoon were listened to with great nttentlon by the teachers. There were so many present at the morn-lug morn-lug session that every seat was filled, many seats being doubly occupied oc-cupied For the afternoon, Superintendent Super-intendent J. M. Mills ordered other e-.vts placed In the assembly hall. The morning session which began at 10:30 o'clock was preceded by several selections by the large high school orchestra, under tho direction 01 Miss Marilla Hunter Mayor A G. Fell was to have made the address of welcome but pressing business compelled his absence and his addressc was read by Moroni Otsen. In the address, the mayor heartily welcomed the educators, outlined out-lined the resources, places of Interest Inter-est and urged that the visitors take advantage of the opportunity to see the points of Interest in the city. Op behalf of the board of education educa-tion of Ogden, President Hyrum Pingree Pin-gree welcomed the visitors, saying: "Ladies and Gentlemen. In be-ha'f be-ha'f of the Board of Education of Ogden, I welcome you. You are to make yourselves at home, go where you wish, see what we have; the Ltt is now yours. "Ogden is one of the roost beautiful beau-tiful cities of the west, situated at th base of these majestic mountains, which furnish an abundance 01 water that is being used for power to run our factories We have our railroads, our canneries, our wholesale establishments, estab-lishments, and our churches, not forgetting for-getting our Ogden canyon which is noted for its beauty and grandeur. 1 We also feel that we have a good school system We are proud of our schools and would like you to visit them and see what is being done. We as members of the Board of Education of this school system, believe be-lieve in trusting professional dulled to professional men and women We have learned that educational work can be best done by educational experts ex-perts We deem It the duty of the But-id of Education to provide such experts and pay them well, then refrain re-frain from all interference. In other words, the Board of Education Is to 1-rovlde funds and supervise the expenditure ex-penditure of those funds with one end in view, the greatest good to the most people at the least expense "We Invite you from Box Elder, you from Summit, you from Davis, yuu from Morgan, to come and take up your abode with us. "You from Weber are so c!o9e to us of Ogden City that we almost consider you as pan of us ' All of you are our educational experts ex-perts We welcome you and wish you success in this convention. 1 thank you " The response was made by Supt. D. C Peterson of the Box Elder coun ty schools after which Supt J M Mills Introduced the lecturer of the Dr. Hoag began his talk with the statement that the handicaps he names might well be called sickness es He referred to adenoids, defec tlve eyesight, defective hearing, men tal peculiarities and poor teeth as I the defects that prevent normal development de-velopment of children along mental and physical lines and in his talk, j outlined methods of discovering the I ailments and how to remedy them Dr Hoag maintains that if is not necessary for school systems to have medical experts to locate such defects He declared this morning that teacb era. with enough intelligence to be oachers can do it with a little study ! 'rom an expert He briefly told how u- b defects can be discovered by the teachers, who. he said, are often better bet-ter fitted to discover defects then doc tors, because the teachers are with the children more than the examln ing physician, who, too often. Is only a machine In discussing children wtth mental deficiencies lie divided them Into three classes idiots, imbeciles and morons He explained that ldlo's are those individuals with a mental age of a threo-ycar-old child Imbeciles art those- whose mental age does not exceed that of a seven-year-old child, and moron9 are Individuals with a mental age not In excess of a 13-ypar-old person Moron ho explained, Is from the Greek word for fool and be declared that the latter class is the most dangerous and hardest to deal .nth. He .said that B large percentage percent-age of the criminal class are morons Morous and imbeciles he said are found in all public schools, the ldiros usually not being permitted to atteud. Consequently he dealt at length upon the two first classes, and after telling ( how the teachers can point out the mentally peculiar children, suggested vocational training as a solution of the troubles. He said that usually such defective people can learn to do one thing well enough to make a llv It was while discussing the vocational voca-tional training that Dr. Hoag voiced his opinion of the American publlu school. He said that while educational educa-tional conditions are better now than ever before in the history of tho coun try. there Is still a great deal to be done before the school system will arrive at a state of perfection. The doctor condemned the prac lice of retaining children In tho grades He urged that teachers pusfc children ahead even against the dictates dic-tates of their conscience for he said that to a sensitive child to be retained re-tained often retards their education several years Precocious children he said are often of-ten as difficult to handle correctly as the opposite class. If the preco clems child is vigorous, he recom- mended that the child be advanced as rapidly as possible, but if the child Is Inclined to be sickly, he advaed that the precocious one be taken from school to acquire physical development. develop-ment. The speaker explained how defective defec-tive vision can be discovered by tho teachers by the simple charts used, and he dwelt upon the importance of correcting poor vision in order thr.t the students with poor eyes be not retarded in their education. In his discussion of adenoids, the speaker opposed as dangerous thw practice of pouring hot material into the ears of children when the adenoids aden-oids cause earache. He said that adenoids ad-enoids cause earache, earache results in boiled onion soup, hot bread and milk or other food being poured into the sore ear and the false remedy results re-sults In the development of bacterla. Oitentlmes, he said, discharges of the ear follow the use of such remedies and result In deafness. Thus, he declared, adenoids. besides causing faulty development of the features, bring on deafness. The symptoms of adenoids, he said, are mouth breathing, a nasal voice, a sharply angled palate and faulty features fea-tures In referring to the teeth of children he pointed out the large percentage of defective teeth that are found in classes below the seventh grade and he urged the teachers to work toward better conditions. By personally examining ex-amining the teeth of the children un der them, the speaker said that tho remarks which follow such examina tlon will be received with more at tention Following the address Supt J M. Mills called the superintendents of the various counties to a meeting and there invited them to luncheon at the Weber club. Supt. W, N. Petterson of tho Weber We-ber county schools mot with the teachers and supervisors of the county coun-ty at the high school before the afternoon af-ternoon session The outlines for th next month in the county system were explained and passed out to the teachers. teach-ers. Following the morning session and. during the afternoon, the local and visiting teachers took in the school fair on the lower floor of the higU school building. fin |