Show Y A SUMMER SCHOOL the work accomplished at yesterdays session provo wednesday aug 15 the geometry and arithmetic were all disposed of th rooming before 8 a in and the training school algebra and frenca before 0 it 1 that the teacher stud enta manage to be bright and well prepared with their class les eona and attend four general lectures each day besides they seem determined to have tho full benefit of the school after devotions dr resumed yesterdays topic attention attention Is of two kind voluntary and as voluntary by the presence of the will and as involuntary by the absence of operation cooperation co of will both kinds can be cultivated and it is a great duty of the teacher to do this particularly the voluntary attention which largely exercises and develops strength of wilf the teacher should endeavor for both moral and didactic reasons to win the good will of the pupils pl pils if you pan double the attraction of a eubie ct you double the power of automatic attention t but a aub eject ie too attractive of this kind of attention and it becomes the teachers duty to lessen the attractiveness to prevent too great a development in one direction aur love swells in the direction of our interest and interest grows in the direction of attention fortunately interest and love follow the direction of our activities and lighten labor aad iperen time what is abo relation of a rule of teaching to a factor principle of teaching at institutes often eay 1 I wish he would atop teaching us the high scientific matters and tell us how to do it they want fixed rules now I 1 will give yon a few of universal application the particular before the general put the concrete before the abstract put the known before the unknown these are rules which you may safely apply because they are based on actual but which is the best to have the rule or the fact the rule applied blindly may not alway succeed nobly but the principle will always suggest both the rule and the mode of its application you never can know how to do it right unless you also know why you should do it 1 I am therefore never bite pleaded to observe that teachers ra much more eager to obtain rules than tle or underlying them A rula without 4 fa 0 ap uee whatever because 11 a can never be made automatic resumed at a m the subject of child study the trend of modern education ie in alie direction of the child himself and its aim is to fit the to the child rather than the cald to the studies education aims to arrange environments and instruments in correct relations 0 o alio elu dent considering his WR development both physical and mental I 1 recommend alf study to ae preliminary because the ch ancee are that the causes dt action arid feeling in also be causes of action and a ji first what tyrnn point in my hiie and what caused them I 1 second what tty beet and and ambitions third who had over me strong in ir good and wh of per tb study the lawa of development in the child because everything be does is a manifestation of mind through hia body and helps to elucidate the great pie of mental development placed on the blackboard a table of minute instructions is how to take ob of self and of children professor brimhall took the floor ti present the subject of environment I 1 hope to awaken como interest in the importance of environment there are two theories concerning environment one ia Buck iea theory of natural history which makes the environment all in all it makes a man a mere creature ox circumstance the other may be called the humanistic theory that man possesses a portion of independent energy to rise above his environment and do and be something noble in spite of surroundings of courso bis surroundings will in any case have some influence on man but not all we can hardly conceive of a creature willious willi out environment but if such were possible no result would follow action but to eay that environment creates all my ideas is as absurd to eay when I 1 strike this desk that the desk struck me we have this proposition environment furnie hea the conditions of mental energy but that is not saying it is the mental energy environment may awaken or modify mental energy but not cause it environment gives an unconscious coloring to ideas and conditions feelings and tendencies the value of environment as a cadee depends upon the idea it produces A picture upon the wall may be a picture to the teacher of the child and not liing more or he may sea it in an emblem of a fact and it becomes potent for good or evil I 1 would expect that people of u ny fair clime would not nave the same habits of thought as woula be found in men of rugged lands I 1 do not admit that environment is the cause but it must be admitted that it has a strong influence if it were powerful all we might naturally expect high civilizations to be permanent instead of transitory greece has not changed but the living idea of its people has I 1 believe that a great idea affects the whole universe look at the ideas of galileo and of morse and see what grand changes of environment they have caused A barren plain changed to a forest exerts a far different influence upon beholders and upon climate we should aim as far as possible to rule circumstances and to be ruled by them as little as possible do not sit supinely by and 1 I can not because circumstances are against me it is the business of mun to mould circumstance to his will and not to become subject to it life lies before us as a huge quarry lies before the architect he deserves not the name of architect except when out of this fortuitous mass be can continue some form the pattern for which originated in his spirit As the poet says arise 1 if the past defeat you her enns liine and tear no charms so unworthy to lold you As those of a vain at alie close ol 01 professor Brim balls lecture professor nelson announced hemf elf a candidate for the position of commissioner of schools for the territory and elate of butali mr J E rebee put a t ot resolutions mr ao 10 candidate or this position and railed for a vote on the question it was cot quite carried |