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Show H EPUCATION IN THE H STATE OF UTAH. H "What is the next step in education M In Utah?" That question has been M submitted to the educators of the state M by the Utah Educational Review and M tho answers received are worthy of m attention. H" Frank It. Arnold sounds a note of H -warning against fads and fancies, In H tho following: H '"The next stop forward for Utah, as H -well as for the whole United States, H to take In education Is of a triple na- H tura. First, college faculties and stu- H dents need to pa) more attention to H business; secondly, high schools need H teachers with more back-ground, who H have a vision beyond vocational dol- H lars; and thirdly, the grades need H to make corollaries and not essentials H out of their numerous fads and fan- H cies." H Mr. Arnold is right. He would limit H fads and fancies to the non-essentials H and give to the high school teaobers H a broader conception of education H than is to be (found in simply prepar- H ing a child to. bo a machine. H J. M. Mills of Ogden condenses his H reply in to six lines as follows: H "The school must fit the child to H serve the community. He is best edu- H cated who is best fitted for service. H Education should consist of work, play , and study. Utah will arise to the occasion." oc-casion." The question arises, "How should the school proceed to fit the child to serve the community?" Howard R. Driggs says the school of tomorrow will deal far more with the "living present," and: "Their chief effort will be directed towards the development of the intellectual intel-lectual resources of the community, with application to all kinds of every day problems. The courses, the texts, the teachers, will aim at meeting tho child on his own ground, and directing his work toward effective self-expression, with a view to the highest service, ser-vice, -whether that service find cx- presslon in potatoes or poetry." Wm. G. Roylance points to a larger field for education: "Viewed in a largo way, the next step in education will be the carrying over of the work of tho school into every activity of the community," say3 Mr. Roylance. "In this process there is sure to bo a great expansion of industrial in-dustrial education, because industrial activities are basic and necessary. But tho expansion of industrial education is not, by itself, the most significant thing. Education will serve the whole of life, It will be concerned with all the activities of all the people. It will be for adults as well as for children; chil-dren; for society, as well as for tho individual. Looking to the development develop-ment of individual and social ideals out of the necessary work of making a living, developing a community and building a nation, it will eliminate the distinction between practical and cultural cul-tural education. The next step in education will mark the greatest epoch in the history of our democracy." demo-cracy." nn |