Show gov george H dern dem discusses school peoples slogan at the recent meeting of the educational association in Salt city governor george H dern addressed the school p people eople on the associations slogan A square deal for every child th the e governor pointed out some of the weaknesses in our present school system that public men although they know of their existence and privately deplore them are afraid to discuss them publicly lack of space forbids the he publication of all of the governors excellent esculent speech but some of the highlights are herewith quoted your association has for its slogan 10 A square deal for far every child does this mean that you are humble about your work woric that you are no not satisfied with what you are doing and that you are determined to do better or does it 1 mean that you at are e complacent about your part of the job but think somebody else ta is derelict and that you propose to bring him up to lo the scratch it makes a world of difference whether such a motto is applied introspectively ively or with an inclination to find fault with others in education what wha is a square deal for every child even ean so excellent a motto as this may anay leai us afield it if it is not carefully analyzed at the start 1 I apprehend that some of you might interpret a square deal for every child to mean a hig high h school education tor for every child others aright insist that every child should have a college education S still aill others more given to generalizations might hold bold that every child should have an equal educational opportunity with every other child and I 1 suppose that is what your excellent slogan is actually intended to mean As such it opens the way for a discussion of taxation and any ber of other practical subjects I 1 shall allow myself self the liberty of referring very briefly to only a few of the manifold ramifications of your seductive reductive motto and possibly some of the things I 1 shall say will invite introspection to begin with a square deal tor for every child demands that every child shall have competent teachers tea cheis the state is not treating ills children fairly it if it does no not unrelentingly impose the highest practicable stan 1 ards tor for the certification of teachers the members of your association should appreciate the importance 1 of this his requirement better than anyone else and even at the risk of being accused of 0 trying to ito form an airtight air tight light union you should exert your influence toward giving every child a good teacher the boys and girls of garfield Gartl eld county are entitled 0 lo 10 o efficient teachers no les less than are the boys and girls of salt lake county children should not no be victimized by being put into the hands of flappers who only want a pay check for a year or two until they can get married nor should the daughter of a school board member or continued on page tour four GOV GEORGE H DERN DEEM DISCUSSES SCHOOL PEOPLES SLOGAN continued from page one of some other influential citizen be em unless she has had sound training and fa 13 thoroughly qualified to teach the young idea to shoot in the right direction indeed I 1 think educators are generally agreed that it is poor poo policy in a small community to employ a home town teacher certainly it Is not a square deal to the children if the school board hires an interior inferior teacher because she he will work for less than it would cost to get a firt class teacher with capable teachers there will be less danger that the children will not receive sound instruction in n the fundamentals it may be a lit bit old fashioned to 1 talk about the three Rs but nobody has yet in vented a system em that makes them non in ili my business I 1 have several times employed young stenographers from the high schools and their spelling was abominable their punctuation was atrocious and their vocabulary was juvenile I 1 have run short of 0 adjectives or 1 I inight also alao say something about their arithmetic and penmanship these girls had not had a square deal or they would mot have been turned out butof of school so illy prepared for the work vork they were undertaking to do As further evidence of the lack of a square deal to every school child I 1 have only to remind you of the extraordinary mortality in freshmen english at the university of utah it is most regrettable not to say disgraceful that so many high schools in the state are falling failing to give their students proper instructions in english the graduation requirements quire ments mems of the high schools of the united states today are supposed to be nearly as high as were the graduation requirements of harvard yale and princeton sev enty five or a hundred years ago but every college graduate iu in those kimes inias coull could use his own language in n a correct and polished manner I 1 do not like to repay your gracious hospitality tonight by finding fault but this is a matter about which go so many of our people are arc rumbling grumbling that I 1 venture to make a plea for a square deal for every child in the teaching of english the first requisite of a cultured american and so teachers your high mission Is not simply to cram the childs head full of facts but to inculcate in him habits of edness of raudy study and analysis of adf investigation ani and reflection of reasoning and courageous self reliance make his soul adopt the admonition of paul prove all thins things s hold fast that which h Is good it if you accomplish that you will be happy in your service for you will be contributing wonderfully to the progress pro gross of the world occasionally god lets loose I a thinker and he may fall into your hands if through your guidance and encouragement and inspiration tion his powers unfold and develop yours too will be the joy the glory and the reward |