Show TEACHERS INSTITUTE I The Salt Lake County Teachers Summer Sum-mer Institute Open ToDay at the University School Commissioner P L Williams Delivers the Opening Address Sound Educational Talk Teaching A Paper by Supt W M Stewart An Interesting Session and n Ills Attendance The Summer Institute of the Salt Lake county teachers met this morning in the Deseret University building at 10 oclock County Superintendent Win M Stewart presiding There was a splendid attendance atten-dance of teachers there being about seventyfive of them ladies and gentlemen gentle-men present In fact only when teachers get together in convention can there be seen such a large assemblage assem-blage of beauty and intelligence The chief feature of this mornings exercises exercses was the most excellent address of the TERRITORIAL SCHOOL COMMISSIONER P L Williams Esq Following is a synopsis of the Commissioners remarks furnisled THE DEMOCRAT reporter by Mr Sorenson secretars of the Institute Mr Williams said he had been unable for want of time to prepare himself upon an appropriate subject for the occasion oc-casion He had never taught school to any extent and was therefore unacquainted unac-quainted with the details of the profession profes-sion The lime has passed when educa tion is regarded as ornamental as this is an age which demands an education that may be utilized in every day life Every teacher must recognize that the objeLt of education is a development of all the faculties of the human being The object of this development is i the elevation eleva-tion of mankind socially politically and morally We have reached our present condition of civilization through a gradual grad-ual advancement from a barbaric state and it is the duty of this generation to elevate by a proper system of education those who follow us In this work the teachers are the important factors and they are beginning to be recognized as a distinct professional class The early training of the child before entering school is too often entirely neglected by the parents To this fact may be ascribed the cause for the profanity pro-fanity and obscenity we so frequently heard on the streets Parents seldom know whether the schoolmaster to whom they send their children is qualified for the work of training the powers of the child or not and often inferior instructors instruct-ors are employed The small salary paid the average teacher is an impediment to the progress of education as it is impossible for the teacher to make a livelihood and devote all his titan and energies to the profession profes-sion I the salary he raised it will raise the standard of f efficiency for capable men and women will then devote their whole time to the work tme The commissioner deplored the fact that out of the school pojnlitions of some districts in the city oiy twenty five per cent attend choo in many cases parents are unable to pay the tuition tu-ition and the children are the innocent sufferers The entire wealth of a com mun ty should be made responsible for the education of the children of that community com-munity Let the property of the Territory be taxed sufficiently to educate all the children in Utah Better school houses better apparatus and better facilities for carrying on the educational interests of the Territory must be furnished by taxation taxa-tion All friends of education should use their influence in securing legislation that these will furnish desired a sufficient objects tax t accomplish i At the close of the address Miss Bessie Dean sang a beautiful song in a swept artistic manner Supt Win M Stewart closed the session ses-sion with a well prepared paper on Teaching The teachers part in the process of education is that of a guide director or superintendent of the operations tions by which a pupil teaches himself was the definition teaching a given by Mr Stewart He traces the history of the modern system of education which commenced by the philosophic and philanthropic labors and ideas of Pestalozi and Froebel supplemented by such educational agitators and reformers as Mann Spencer Payne Page Agassiz and those great naturalists Huxley and Tyndall The lecture continued with an excellent explanation of the principles underlying the art of teaching showing the only true way to do the work t be based on natural principles applied to the development of the childs growing physical physi-cal system and the unfolding of its tender ten-der and budding mind The lecturer also drew attention t the great benefits of having cabinets of natural curiosities pictures mottoes flowers etc as proper and effective educational agencies to stimulate pupils to study and become interested in their school labors The address was closed with eloquent praise of teachers and their labors Real teachers said Mr Stewart are philanthropists philan-thropists for the cause of learning lies along the path of love The Institute then took a recess until 2 p m at which hour DR J R PARK Delivered a powerfnl and instructive address ad-dress fln The Advantages to be Derived from a Proper Organization of the Public Schools of the Territory Then followed a quartette by Misses Bessie Dean and Aura Thomas and Messrs Evan Stephens Steph-ens and William Dean The afternoon session was closed by a general discussion discus-sion on the Organization of a Territorial Institute The county institute will continue for four days with two sessions a day and evening lectures |