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Show THE WAYWARD BOYS OF OGDEN. John M. Mills has taken a new tacc. Having rallied certain" forces to his support, he seeks to avert from, himself the eyeB of tho public by publishing pub-lishing a severe attack on the children of the editor of the Standard The editor's children, in part, are a product of the schools of Ogden They have attended the local schools from the time' they were able to toddle tod-dle to the institutions of learning. If they have failed to make good, tho fault, in part at least, is traceable to the school sj'stem. Since the half-day plan and the elective system have been in force, the pupils of the schools have been trained in evasion; the youngsters have been taught to shirk responsibility responsi-bility and to move along the lines of least resistance. At the formative period of their lives, the most impressionable children chil-dren will be bent in the direction they are Instructed to go. Instead of being trained for life's sterner dutieB, the children have been I weakened -by having their obligations in the class rooms reduced to a minimum, mini-mum, and no adequate corrective can he applied at home, once the schools fill the youngsters' minds with tho thought that the avoidance of real hard work is no.t harmful. "Under a good school system, 'the worst of boys, through the co-opera-tlon of tho parents, can be made to realize they owe the world something more than Indifference. We say the worat of boys. There 'are no boys so bad that they cannot be molded to good purpose, if their school environ-ment environ-ment is of the besL A boy full of life, having an active mind, will become be-come wayward if he is allowed to diift in Bchool, and drifting describes a school system which loBes trace of a big percentage of its scholars A school, without disclplino, W'n I ruin more boys than all the prayers 1 of devoted mothers can save. I |
