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Show CHEN OVER H IN VOCATIONAL mill V - Salt Lake, March 10. "I am glad to be home and most pleased to bring back the message that Utah and her people are held In high esteem by easterners and especially by the educators edu-cators whom I met during my trip," said A. C. Matheson, state superintendent superin-tendent of public instruction, who returned yesterday from the conven-'tion conven-'tion of the National Educational association as-sociation held in Richmond, Va., February Feb-ruary 2'3 to 27. According to Superintendent Su-perintendent Mntheson, it was the largest and most successful convention conven-tion of the section ever held, and a groat deal tending to improve educational educa-tional methods was accomplished "The convention," said Mr. Matheson, Mathe-son, "adopted a resolution favoring the establishment of vocational schools for pupils over 14 years of ago and compulsory attendance at continuation con-tinuation schools for pupils from 14 to 18, who are doing vocational work. The convention also favored consolidation consoli-dation of small school districts. It was the opinion of tho3e present that the province for teaching sex hygiene is the home, but should the teaching of it be attempted in auy school, then it should be taught by a person having hav-ing special preparation for the work. "The convention reaffirmed Its resolution reso-lution favoring the establishment of a national university and expressed thanks to the National Bureau of Education Edu-cation for its assistanco in educational education-al work. There were many interesting interest-ing papers read and able discussions heard during the convention and the subjects taken up indicated that the schools of the nation are going, through a transition and that great care must therefore be exercised to ascertain just what changes may be .made advantageously, both iu subject sub-ject and in method. " "One of the ablest and what many regarded the best address of the convention was made by Commission,-er Commission,-er Sneddon of Massachusetts, on 'Fundamental 'Fun-damental Distinction Between Liberal and Vocational Education.' Fie gave It as his opinion that while liberal education would necessarily be as generously sustained in the future as in the past, yet in about ten years, as much money would be expended ex-pended for general educational purposes pur-poses and that these increased funds would come largely through national sources. "He also expressed the view that a big problem before school men is Ho find, if possible, how present school machinery may be used to give effective ef-fective vocational training. He gave the impression that he felt it would be as "putting new wine into old bottles. bot-tles. He was of the opinion that most of the present methods and school paraphernalia used so long and so successfully for general educational education-al purposes would have to give way largely to more direct methods, and that while in the last analysis the school plant would likely provide adequate ade-quate equipment and facilities for educational edu-cational work, yet for a while, at least, he felt that the home would have 10 co-operate with the school, and vice versa, In the work of home economics; that the teaching of fanning fann-ing would have to be done largely on the farm; that shop work would have to be done largely in the shop and cooking in the kitchen all of these, however, to be connected closely with the schools." |