Show education is the search for god goats s truth I 1 by dr E G peterson president of the th utah agricultural college the success of any people Is bound up with their educational effort no people under modern conditions can assume leadership and command suc ces cassand cessn sand nd happiness in tile the world unless first or of all they have in comparison with others mastered the laws of nature and assume 1 I leadership in tile the arts take away educational effort the standardization of knowledge which Is represented in schools and colleges and you tire are preparing tho the way tor for social degener degeneration atil on in the great struggle now for fighting efficiency which the war compels lot let us not forget that we roust must not only succeed on tile field of battle but that through all the future ability must be matched against ability in the ceaseless harrowing and perfecting competition of man and roan one great leader as was luther or koch in germany pasteur in france montessori montessoro Montes sori in italy shakespeare or gladstone in england or elliot or B mison edison in america Is worth countless dollars and countless armies N the most rigid scrutiny should always go with every dollar of the aco peoples hard earned money spent for education or for any other purpose and educational institutions must bend themselves to meet the needs of tho the farmers and others who are responsible tor for the development of the state we sometimes cry economy and then plunge into a social cataclysm which consumes billions while our poor brains have been abscessed with saving thousands truly any investment which will tend to lead us up onto the th table land of brotherly love out of the swamp of hate and envy and strife which comes in measure from ignorance is investment well made investment in gods truth that is education of the right sort if it never pays us back a dollar even then how great Is our reward shame on the truckler who from each ray of light demands a shimmer of gold yet with it all knowledge does give us power no not tonly only to command the satisfactions of spirit which separate beast from man but also the material things of life the educated men lold hold I 1 the responsible positions in the world there are of course and will continue to bo be brilliant and glorious exceptions but th the rule prevails that eliat training in schools and colleges prepares most of our leaders bays keys and girls should be trained for usefulness ful ness education need not be perfunctory it should train farmers in the rans mastery tery of soil water plant growth and animal breeding it should train mothers in the most important considerations of child rearing nutrition and development and in mastering the science and art in these world old occupations of man there is a presumption of intelligence and moral power of the highest order in preparing our citizens thus for life lies our real work in education our real future as a powerful or if we tail fall a vassal state the educational needs of it a state like utah are first a strong elementary school system where over go 00 per cent of the population will continue for some time to receive their entire education but with the other swall small percentage we should have great cor coh cern among them will be found in preponderance our religious and moral leaders our inventors our chemists physicists agricultural research loaders leaders our philosophers eis our discoverers of truth and our compilers of truth our painstaking chroniclers of eints and facts all these we must train or our society will step back many years we need in utah particularly advanced training in agriculture home borlie economics engineering and of course strong sources of information in literature history economics music the recognized sciences and such training in law and medicine as conditions permit but particularly should we train for mastery in production of food and in the difficult and tremendously important problems of family life ife here should be our major effort we must continue what brigham young begrin began an ennoblement of the foundational activities of our life fa farming and home making we can ennoble these occupations by insuring that our mot most intelligent and cultured citizens find remunerative and nd pleasurable occupation in them we ve must maintain a high intellectuality rind and more important a high morality and spirituality in farming find and housekeeping already the standard in utah Is the best the best men and the finest women nomen see duty and pleasure in such work we should be and are proud of the character cliar acter of men who own our lauds lands and the women who live on our farms they are the best we have let us bring to them every blessing in of science and art let us lend our efforts to the end that their strongest sons and daughters may see equal satisfaction in such endeavor thus only can we be assured of a strong state and a groat great nation all else will full fall it if we fall fail in in this one creat thing |