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Show MISHT CHILDREN 1 TO BE COHERED With a lecture on Some I'ndisrov Bred Tragedies of Childhood.' by Dr. Ernest Bryanl rloag, Saturday eve oing, the district educational convention conven-tion was completed, it was general ly agreed in loral educational circles that the convention was the most successful suc-cessful one-day meeting ever held In the state i While many of the educators re-J re-J turned to their homes Saturday evening, eve-ning, a number remained in Ogden over Sunday and took advantage oi I the excellent weather to see the I points of Interest, The canyon und the Hot Springs were among the places pla-ces visited. The second lecture of Dr Hoag dealt with the school children whu are not average. He said the pres ent school system is designed to meet the demands of the average child, but that here are no proisions for hand ilng the peculiar children, or "mis fit as Dr. Hoag called them. In lhi6 class he placed those hoys am! girls who are short in some lines and long In others Some, he said, have very little capacity lor arithmetic. I sonic as little for spelling or music, while Others show no menial aptitude for drawing, mechanical work or man ual training "Our public schools make scant pro vision for those various kinds of mis fit children.'' said Dr Hoag. "The schools arc adapted for the aerago Child and woe betide the child that does not fit into the forms of the system. sys-tem. Rut that is not as it should be Our educational system should not be prepared to teach some of the children of some of the people, but all fit tin- children of all of the people 'The misfit child Is a patheth figure. fig-ure. In time his confidence usually wanes. Sometimes he regains it if he discovers that he dos not need to learn all the things the teacher said he did to be as bright and as successful success-ful as others" The lecturer pointed out that usually usu-ally the creat men and women were "misfits" during their school days. He referred to a number who are great, I but who w ere dull in school. |
