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Show LEROY E, C0IE5 ADDRESSES TEflGHERS Professor LeRoy E. Cowles of the University of Utah addressed tho teachers of the city schoolB at their regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon, on the subject of "Modern Educational Needs." In part, he said: "With tho increasing complexity of modern life, including the coming in of tho factory system and the removal remov-al of industries from the home, has come also a great change in education. educa-tion. In the days of our grandfathers our industries were mostly agricultural. agricul-tural. Very little training was needed need-ed beyond the traditional three R's except by the few who went into professional pro-fessional life. "With tho Increased use of machinery, ma-chinery, the development of manufacturing, manu-facturing, mining and transportation, accompanied by tho tremendous growth of cities, new and taxing demands de-mands have been laid upon the school system. New subjects were added to the cause of study, without eliminating eliminat-ing tho old ones nor reducing the time devoted to them. "The course of study became overcrowded. over-crowded. The new studies were usually usu-ally placed in the schools in response to a felt need, but sometimes they were placed there because fcif the whim of some school man. Fads and frills had their day. But among the most serious-minded educators the problem of adopting the needed new subjects without militating against the old was a serious one. "Scientific management in education educa-tion has come to stay. Many of the same principles that prevail in big enterprises en-terprises of other kinds must prevail in educational administration. Schools must show definitely what products are being produced by them. It is a day of specialization and competition. The work of tho educational expert cannot be done by a lay board of control any more than can the directors direc-tors of a hospital determine tho courso of treatment of certain diseases. dis-eases. There will always bo reactionaries reac-tionaries In education, as in every other field, but the demand today is for intelligent progress, in making the school suit the needs of today, and not what the needs were thought to be a generation ago. This involves tho adoption of scientific standards and tests for the measurement of the educational output "It will cost money, of course, hut it Is bettor to pay $40 for a good Buit of clotfies than $10.50 for one to be ashamed of." |