The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-23

advancement The new teacher has no
knowledge of what the students have done,
and the smoke surrounding his idea that
everything is TOUT of kilter'' can only be
removed by a complet Encouragement OF
the whole work Accordingly he turns
everybody back to the front of the book,
the drudgery of again slowly turning the
worn leaves must be resumed. rms Ger
tainly is sufficiently discouraging to pro-
mote any scheme which promises remedy.
And here the graded system comes to the
relief with an harmonious adjustment
throughout the county. So much work is as
signed to each school, and this work is uni
form throughout When a student finishes
one grads in one school, ne can enter the
next higher grade in any other school.
When the new teacher asSomeS his posi-
ton he can Immediately tell where each
student belongs and need waste no time in
introducing new methods, and the students
can continue with their studies right WHERE
they left off,
5-The graded system prolongs school
life. What we want to see is class spirit,
even II cane rushes and class tights are
employed. Let each student have tie
greatest affection for his class, and let him
look back with the pride of Yale's '9Os to
the time when he passed the marked mile
stone. This may be admitted to exist in col
leges but be impossible in country schools.
Though this class spirit can not rage as
rampant in Marriott or Pleasant View as
1t does in Amherst or Princeton, never
| theless graduation will somewhat bind mem
bers of the same year together and tend to
cause reluctance to leave the class Until
the work is finished and the honors OF the
glorious graduating day are achieved.
6-In all schools in the county 1t Is gen.
orally considered necessary to have uni
| formity of text books. But with a graded
system in every study this uniformity is
not necessary. For instance, in history,
SO much work is laid out to be done, and
so the reliable information is acquired II
matters not whether the student reads
Barnes or Bancroft In history no one
should be limited to one book. 1t is life
undertaking to become a good historian,
and to understand the causes and results
of the great worlds movements one has to
drink deep from wells pure and undefled.
| am inclined towards the idea of using
different histories in the schools, SO that
the books are reliable authorities
II think that the same reasoning can
beapplied to physiology and hygiene.
"7-One eff the chief faults of the exist
ing system that graduation will remove is a
tendency OF students to take certain studies
and neglect others equally essential. Take
grammar as an example. What is more i'm
portant in one's education than to use the
English language correctlys Robert Lin
Wueu Cdll0u upOu W give d OOioU d
the banquet in Washington, said:
'Our great public schools may their influence
spread,
Till statesmen use grammar and dun ceS are
dead;
And no one will say In the land of the free:
L done for 1 did, and it's her for its She
"Now in the recent reports that have
been sent by the various teachers of the
county, grammar in nearly every instance
/ hoe hoH thnl net of Tn
, fifty one students browse on bare bones
and blue blood, while but two inquire why
Il seem and you was are incorrect expires
sions. OF course in graded schools every
study has to be completed as it is cata
, logued before the student can obtain his
diploma.
education. Of course it is impossible t.
specialize in common schools. To barely
overtake chemistry with its rapid advance
! ment would require fourteen years of con
: tinual study. 1t is not expected tina
r students in graded schools will become
+ Leonard de Vencis or masters of every ar
\ and every study, but these schools vii
tend to make students thorough in wha
they go over, and the branches they pur
| 4ue will be sufficient to occupy their stud.
. hours.
q s9-It is great systematizer, and vii
r produce better results with less aggrava
d ton. L do not intend to make more of
e Hawthorn of a subject already trlte, AM
9 will let order and method sing their owl
p songs However, it can safely be claimet
n for graded schools that the number O
h classes can be reduced, and, if necessary
e the members of each class can be increased
e tsl0-Gradation gives each teacher
8 policy without which nothing great ca
), ever be accomplished. In my opinion
v Themistocles was a greater man, an
q should be more admired than PericleS. TIL
q Athenian who took his city in the embry
d and in the face of elephantine difhcultie
d started it on the road of progress and re;
is son deserved more credit than his succe:
,r sor who consummated the plans arrange
20 and agreed upon.
II sI1-Gradation brings with it examine
is lions and commencement days. There ma
o. be considerable objection brought agains
= examinations at the end of each term, BIT
let a better method be proposed that wi
d fully answer what is required Gran
ir ming 'stuffing' and all those things do NJ
r pertain materially to the subject for col
re sideration. But who is there who will sa
r. graduation days are not beneficial! VIII
IF ever it is let his assertions stand again:
le Hendricks when he speaks of the annu;
le graduation in country schools. 1t give
,t dignity to the district schools, demand
tie thorough work among the students and a
n fords an opportunity of calling together til
is friends of education, thus bringing I'M
le public notice the work of our schools whic
e might otherwise remain in obscurity.
e let the pesslmist who speaks of diplomas
m all 'fol-de-rol' and uncertainty hear whi
h the well known Wade says: 81 give it {
le my deliberate conclusion, drawn from O
J. servation, that the introduction of tt
10 graduation system into the common schoo
1T of the country will produce as great re
at olution in our educational system as tn
to produced upon travel on land and sea by tt
" application of steam"
"a AREsoLUTIoN.
The following resolution was unan
at mously adopted:
al Resolved, by the teachers of the distri
IA schools of Weber county, that the Fl,
"a school system demands graded schools
all the districts, and that the first ST
necessary is the establishing of primal
Ia department in every district in the coun t
as also that it is the duty of the trustees, f
=, the sake of economy, to attend to this il
he mediately and engage suitable teacher f
ne that department.
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