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Show PBOF. HENRY PETEBSOW 1 TALKS ON CP I SCHOOLS U ; Prof' Henry Peterson of the Og- mm den high school addressed a large H :; audience at the Ogdon Tabernacle M ;, yesterday afternoon. The meeting J ; was conducted by Elder Frank Willi- mm ; nms of the Tabernacle committee, and the Invocation was offered by H ; Elder H. H. Goddard. . Excellent music was furnished by MM the Ogden Tabernacle choir, and so- H loist8, and Sam F. Whitaker, organ- 1st, the program being as follows: i Organ prelude, M. Whitaker. Hymn, "Come, O Thou Klne of . Kings," Choir. Duet and Chorus, "When I Can Read ; My Title Clear," Bessie Blair, Lillian" BW Scott and Choir. Solo and Chorus, "O Holy Night," '. Agnes Warner and Chorus. H ) Prof. Peterson took as his subject, "Education." and began by saying " that, inasmuch as the Church o Jesus ) Christ of Latter-day Saints, was a strong advocate of education, as in- ; stanced in the large sums of money 9 expended for the church schools, he thought that the subject would not .; be inappropriate for his address in ; a Sunday meeting of that church. Con- ' tinuing, ho said, that in the educa- ; tion of children there could be no ;i great success without the co-operation , of teachers, parents and the lawma- ? kers and he hoped for the day to come $ when representatives of all three of I ? these classes would meet to discuss I J (he problems of proper teaching. I ' Concerning the preBent-day school I ; system, he said that elementary schools were found In all cities and ? bad nearly always existed, but that I J the high school was a super-imposed I .? Institution, having grown out oi the I i; other schools. The high school, he I said, was first instituted in Boston I ; in 1S21. It grew slowly until after I the civil war and from that time on I ;i It has grown very rast, especially in I ;j the western states. At the time of I i the Inception of the high school it I ';' was more for the education of the chll-I chll-I dren of the rich, but the tendency of I I late years has been toward a more democratic condition until today a high school education can be obtained by anyone who desires It. Regarding the change of the system of teaching, and the instituting of many new features of education, especially espe-cially the sub-high schools and industrial indus-trial education, ho said that It was just as necessary for the school systems sys-tems to change as it was for any other progressive Institution. He referred re-ferred to President Ellot of Harvard, and Dr. G. Stanley Hall, the noted teacher and lecturer, as being among the first to advocate a change in the elementary school system, taking the sevonth and eighth grades from i and forming of them a sub-high school which added to the high school courso would give the students six years of continuous study under teachers who were specialists in their lines of work. This change was thought advisable owing to the fact that more particular attention to the children was necessary neces-sary during the plastic year's of their lives, especially between the ages of 12 and 16 years. By the sub-high school method their tendencies along special lines could be given more careful care-ful attention and the danger of the child having a desire to quit school at the age of 13 or 11 years, as was noted under the old system, or graduation gradu-ation from the eighth grade, would be greatly lessened and he could be guided into the high school more easily. easi-ly. In closing, he made a strong plea for the people to interest themselves In the schools, to visit them and find out for themselves the work being accomplished. He also urged them to take an Interest In the children by working with the city officials, in an effort to make the city morally clean. He explained that there had been changes in the past to meet the needs of students and conform to conditions that arise He said that changes will continue to be made In educational educa-tional lines when it Is seen that systems sys-tems do not meet the conditions that should be met. "This adverse criticism of the Ogden Og-den school system wjll work a detriment detri-ment to the education of this city," he said, ' unless it Is stopped at once. This suporsensitlveneBB which has been worked up Is all wrong. Let us rise up and clean up the town instead in-stead of critioising it because at present pres-ent there is no place for the children after school hours save those where we ,don't want to see them. There are unusual temptations In this town, more so than any other of Its size. The moving picture houscB show scenes which children should not see. The poolrooms arc wide open although there is a lew against them. The cigar stores sell tobacco to boys under un-der age and so do the saloons. These places of temptation to the children should be rigidly regulated or wiped out altogether. You parents should go to the polls and close up out town." The benediction was offered by Elder El-der H. II. Shurtliff. |
