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Show oo PROF. H. M. DR166S ; ADDRESSES TEACHERS Prof. Howard M. Drlgs, head of the) English department at the University of Utah, spoke yesterday afternoon at the Ogden high school. His subject was "Teamwork in Teaching English." j (The audience consisted of teachers of the schools of Ogden and several other ! interested persons. His address was chiefly of value from the teacher's standpoint as it contained many valuable valu-able suggestions concerning school work. In part he said: "Very often children are given the facts of language and not sometl inc live and useful, they often receive only the busks of language and not 'the real life clement. If the child cannot can-not grasp 'he meaning of a problem in arithmetic for an example, and have a mental picture or the Idea expressed ex-pressed he cannot re expected to solve the problem, and this Is the reason for the great number of failures in our classes. Geometry Is a fine lesson in sentence structure because of the close distinctions and nice points involved. in-volved. The same is true of science and the most important part Is to teach the pupil to express himself in the terms of science. "A big thought in the teaching of children to help them use the mother tongue effectively was expressed recently re-cently when an army officer was asked by a cellege president why so many college men fail to pass in the examinations for officers' training camps The answer was because of slouchlness both In their appearance and their English, being unable to properly enunciate their mother tongue, ton-gue, and the army officers would not trust their men to leaders who could not give commands in clear carrying voices "We ought to bo intensely interest- this country are men who cannot speak English is shown by the report of Commissioner Claxton. head of the federal educational department, who said there are in ibis country' 5.000.000 people who can neither understand our speech nor be understood by us." |