Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-10-15 | Page 10 | Teachers in the Schools Should Have Laughter

! Teachers in the I j Schools Should : Have Laughter OAKLAND. Calif. Oct. 12 Revolutionary Revolu-tionary idfas in education were of-! of-! fered a. the meeting of Ihe Califor-j Califor-j nla Teachers' association, when William Wil-liam McAndrew, associate superinten-lent superinten-lent of schools in Nov York, and Wil , j liam John ocpor, Mipr-rml endent of Piedmont school-, and president of j the association, addressed a body of C3oO assembled from Alameda. Contra CoBta, Marin. San Joaquin and Solano counties. Laugh." insisted McAndrew, who !s! a national authority in education-1 Don't be a poor, wizened sister of sorrow, who suppresses laughter as' something forbidden When you scold bold a mirror before you. or sing immediately im-mediately after a verse of "Perfect Day.' or keep a record of scoldings and commendations. Be glad you're: alive. Quit the weary, downtrodden ' stuff." "At the present when the school i children are being proMded with literature." lit-erature." he continued, "including ideas of Belshevlsm and the soviet doctrines of Russia, the public schools must take its vital place In training 'boys and girls in practical citizenship iand not as youngsters on a waiting I 'list for some supreme gift."