| Show I 1 T 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 the county school teachers A bation holds its first meeting THE TRE SUBJECT OF I 1 1 S arlly Id dresses tilt be I 1 1 trainers of f linds A good flora set on 03 root foot 1 1 held Is first meeting 00 of this school year in the central school building I 1 yesterday d ay a afternoon at 2 91 pc lock clock after the reading dia of several reports joseph B S peery superintendent of I 1 schools delivered the following address on traded graded schools school sf f fully realizing the responsibility I 1 devolving upon the superintendent of I 1 weber countes Coun tys public ti se choals boals and k folly fully appreciating that more or less might ba be attribute f to me for attempting to introduce a uva new and important measure while I 1 have never taught school and am young in years it ia is with no little hesitancy that Y I 1 address BO so many school teachers I 1 upon a subject of high worth a subject i in a great measure which abasta your success and happiness in your gur daily ally work a subject which decidedly relates to the benefit the advancement and more the very existence of every boy and girl who attends classes in this county though I 1 have never taught school I 1 hive have been under some able instructor and have somewhat observed 7 the different methods pursued in a few successful institutions of public I 1 instruction you all know better than 1 I the I 1 I 1 syster that has baen adopted in our I 1 public schools the progress of the students has been too dependent on 1 1 the teacher if it the teacher be a good disciplinarian a person thoroughly stocked with knowledge and one who understands bow to judge his pupils and how to draw out the powers of their minds the results of the present system are highly beneficial I 1 IIo however wever even with such an excellent I 1 teacher owing to the changes in his vocation and the history of near 1 ly every district in this county shows slows these too frequent changes these eal pal 1 dutary results do not always follow with the new regime strange and different dolfl detent methods are introduced and it is the students who have to suffer I 1 think the assertion will hold that ir A very ofton the student has to tread t the same ground this year that met his gaze raze last year there are no new fields for him no pleasing variations no novelties to gladden hia his eye no late melody to delight deligh this djs ears joo jup I 1 new material to please pleas 8 lia mind and tun to encourage courage it tn in wan wandering dering through th the fields of research and investigation the sams faults ara are frequently I 1 I 1 found with schools that do not remove I 1 their teachers with the change of seasons I 1 I 1 t perhaps you know of illustrations I 1 where students have bad had had to study 6 the same books time and time repeated simply because of a few unfinished t I 1 pages in the back of the beok I 1 or because the fill fall term found the class EO so small that further advancement could not be considered and the old trite tales would have to be reit I 1 aerated te rated I 1 Is this encouragement to the teacher does the incentive to burn the twelve oil fire the breast of the scholar does the joy of grazing in pastures green awaken I 1 the worker in school book lore at the me fifth hoar hour on a winters morning and I 1 does the spirit of assiduity push him I 1 on to the uninviting floor the questions require no answers I 1 think there is no one present who gi t li 1 W iff w I 1 I 1 will ill not agree with me in paying saying that hoped continued sedulousness cannot be hoped to como come from a student who ba has creditably finished fini shod a certain study but who is forced force d into nto the game fame groove which he has once passed over the evil cannot but be admitted what is the remedy let lat the tho theory of ot graded schools answer the question and let the practice of the best schools in the land be cited to substantiate the claims in graded schools the students have a greater incentive to study than jo in schools where the loose system prevails vails it has been said that no real ity equals the expectation bat I 1 think that when the school boy wins the laural of his big hopes he comes v very e r y near attaining a certain satis satisfaction fact lo 10 that is to bo be desired firebug brilliancy lian cy though t anu gh it is 11 when hen ha realizes there Is always ahead of him when be he climbs from a loir low place to a higher one and leaves all bis his former iner work well done with a certificate cf of graduation as a proof does it not stand to reason that he will work harder take a much more marked interest in his studies than he would it ha he knows that what he be goes over today to day will ba be the same path for him to travel twelve months hence rAre parents rits will take a much deeper interest in their childrens education all parents take a pride in their sons and daughters attaining a commendable position in lifes battles all parents desire their children to equal other parents children therefore will these parents not lend encouragement to their representatives in the public school that they will not fall behind in the race will not the monthly reports sent bent to each parent giving the exact standing of bis his son or daughter tend to awaken a marked interest in the school work with this increased interest follows the employment of efficient teachers with children at least one half depends upon the teacher with advanced students nine tenths depends upon the scholar I 1 claim that most excellent material is found in our public schools brighter minds than those of the army of young people who daily attend these school rooms are found nowhere in these broad united stales states however with all this good material to work on the teacher will be the index of the school if it be be full of life with a great desire to right fully sustain the position of the al teacher the students will ba be wide awake active and will study with push and progress if thu the teacher be a sluggard slug sard and counts the cost of every 1 exertion the students will fall into the same rusty rut rat and at the close of the school year an abundant crop of apples from the dead aea sea will be gathered it may ba be an hyperbole but I 1 have an idea it will stand that a good teacher will better prepare students in two years than thin a poor one will in to fire five years how fortunate ort abate it will be tor for all concerned when the man who will not teach for five dollars less will be preferred and be employed over the individual who will teach at the most minimum of prices in graded schools the evils resulting from the frequent changing of teachers will to a certain extent be remedied I 1 take it that no two of you yon have the same system of teaching nor do you bring your classes to the same degree of advancement the new teacher has no knowledge of what the students have done and the smoke surrounding bis his idea that everything is out of kilter can on only y be removed by the complete r rearrangement a of the whole works accordingly he turns every everybody bod ay back to the front of the book and the drudgery of again slowly turning the worn leaves must murt be resumed this certainly is sufficiently discouraging to promote any scheme which promises a remedy and here I 1 the graded f Taw sap system comes to the relief with a alarm harmonious onions a adjustment throughout the county so much work is la assigned to each B school h ool and this work is uniform throughout when a student finishes one grade in one school bo he can enter the next higher grade in any other school when the new teacher assumes bis his position ho he can immediately tell where each student belongs and needs no tima time in in intro dacong new now methods and tho the students can continue with their studies right where they left off the traded graded system prolongs school life what wo want to see is class elass spirit even if cano cane rushes and class clasa fights are employed let each student have the greatest affection for his class and lot him look hack back with the pride of to the time when he passed the marked mile stone tais this may ha be admitted to exist in colleges but brit be impossible in country schools thought this clasa class spirit can not rage rampant in margiotta Mar notta or pleasant view as it does in armburst Arm herst berst or princeton nevertheless gradation crad atlon vil some somewhat w a t bind members of the same ye year together and tend to causa cause a rel reluctance suco to leave tha the class until the work is finished and he the honors of the glorious graduating day are achieved in all schools in the county it is generally considered necessary to have a uniformity of textbooks text books budwith but with a graded system the uniformity is not necessary in every study for instance in history so much work is mapped out to be done and so reliable information is is ac acquired it matters not whether the h a student reads barnes or bancroft la in history no one should be limited to one book it is a life undertaking to become a good hist historian historians and to understand the oriand causes an and results of the worlds great movements one has to drink deep from wells pure and undefiled 11 I 1 am inclined towards the idea of using different histories in in the a schools ch eo that the books are reliable authorities I 1 think that the same reasoning can be applied to physiology and hygene bygone one of the chief fauls faille of the existing system that gradation will remove is a tendency of students to take certain studies and neglect others equally essential use grammar as an e example ample what is is more important in ones education than the correct nse use of the english language robert lincoln when called u upon pon to give a toast at the banquet in washington said our great public schools mar may their influence spread till statesmen iua use grammar and nd dunces are to d dead I 1 and no one will car say in this land of 0 the free I 1 done for I 1 did and its her lor for its she now in the recent reports that haya have been sent by the various bachers ta chers of tho the county grammar in nearly every instance has bad had the least attention in ono school fifty one ono students browse on bare bones and blue blood while but two enquire why 1 I seen and yon was are incorrect expressions of course in graded schools every study has to becom bif completed as it is catalogued cataloguer catalo gued before the student can obtain hia his diploma graded schools tend to give a rounded education of course it is impossible to specialize in common schools to barely overtake chemistry with its rapid advancement would require fourteen years of continued study it is not expected that graded schools will become leonard da do or masters of every art and every study but these schools will tend to make students thorough in what they go over and the branches they pursue will be sufficient to occupy their study hours it is a great and will produce better results with less aggravation I 1 do not intend to make more of a hawthorn of a subject already trite and will let ord order r and eathod sing their own songs however it can safely be claimed tor for graded schools that the number of classes 76 7 6 i can ba be reduced and it decoss necessary ary th tho members of each class cm can ba be 1 in creased gradation gives each teacher a policy W without 1 t bout which I 1 bothin nothing great can over ever bo be accoti bed e 1 I in my opinion The themistok misto cles else w was t a a greater man and be mo more r e admired than pericles the athenian who took bis his city la in tho the embryo and in the faco face of difficulties stariea it on tha the road of progress and renown deserved more credit than his ilia successor who consummated tha the plans arranged and agreed upon gradation brings wih with it examinations and commencement days there may bo be considerable objection brought against examinations examination 3 at the end of each term bat but lot a bettor better method be prop proposed that will fully answer what is required C cramming ram 11 stuffing 11 and all those things du do not pe pertain ertain materially to the subject for consideration B bat a t who is 13 there who will eay say graduating days are not beneficial whoever everit it ba be let his assertion assertions stand against kendricks when ho be speaks of the annual graduation I 1 in n pub public lie schools it gives dagni dignity ty to the district schools school demands t thorough borough work amen among the he students and offers an opportunity of billing together the friends of education thus bringing into public notice the work of four our schools which in might ight otherwise remain main in obscurity or let tha the pessimist w who ho sp e ike ot of diplomas as all fol de rol and unnecessary ne hear what tho the well known wade says 1 I give it as my deliberate cochu sion eion drawn from observation that the introduction of the graduating system into the common schools ot of the country will produce as great a revolution revo luion in our educational system as that produced upon travel on land and and sea by the application of steam finally the adage nothing succeeds like success holds true in this system the mind of the student receives its beet tood food by passing the different grades and general enczur argement is given for extra work graded schools surpass the old system oven even as railways surpass the stage coach the reason for the change in both caca cases is 13 the same the public is is thereby better served after the superintendent had concluded his remarks miss Mc Niley a graduate of the university of california ni and a lady thoroughly experienced in teaching in graded schools in the country said some excellent things well worthy of being published in to full she highly labored graded school schools sir air diggins who bas ha taught a number of years in in indiana was sin influential fluent ial in impressing tha the ie teachers s hers with the progressive move after alter some soma other the following resolution was adopted resolved by the fea teachers cherA of tho the district schools of weber county that the free school system demands graded schools in all the districts and that the first step necessary is is the establishing of a primary mary department in every district in the county also that it is la the duty datt of the tiu trustees for the sako sake of economy to attend to this aly and engage a suitable eui tabla teacher for that department A permanent organization was then m made ade with the following officers joseph 13 peery president charles wright vice president samuel doxey secretary mosiah hall treasurer the organization will give a special pro gramme saturday evening december 20 which will be mentioned in a later issue |
