Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-17
TEACHERS MEETING.
4 Pleasant and Profitable Time
Spent in Pleasant Valley.

The five days meeting Of tn
I Summer Institute OF Teachers wa
keld near Winter Quarters. Pleasan
! Valley, away up in the mountains a
an elevation ofabOut 5000 feetabov,
sen level. Here all the teachers o
/ Utah, Slupete ana Emery counties
pitched their tents in a grove Of tai
/ quaking aspen, On snail divide he
/ tween two gulches.
/ At Q O'Clock on July eth H.,
familiar school tell summoned Tn,
members together.
Chief among the business done
was revision OF the course Of
STUDY adopted 10y the Utah County
teachers Two years ago, and which,
in its revised form. now becomes the
plan for the schools OF the counties
represented. The work uf revision
Igas delegated 20 teachers Of long
Standing ana weli-known ability in
their special calling. and then, after
a critical examination Of the plan
and 2 comparison OF the same with
the work done according to its pro-
visions, reported 10 the Institute.
Again it. matter. method and sug-
geSti0ns received a searching exam
inatiou.
The principles ana methods Of
teaching proved a pleasing feature
Of the proceedings.
Following Is a list Of the subjects
pre~entei: Elementary drawing.
Emil Isgreen; natural philosophy,
Emil isgreen; geography. George
II. Brimha!i: music. Prof. II. T..
Giles; :. II. tactics, /. \. Wilson:
bookkeeping, +. \. Wilson; gram
mar anu composition, j. y. Rec:
penmanship, Institute: calistbeuics.
VIM. Rawlings: arithmetic (prim-
ary) Janet FIndlay, intermediary
Fhena Brimhall, grammar Jos.
y. Rees; discipline, Prof. +. r.
Merrill: busy work. Maria Larson:
reading, primary Matte Nelson,
lintecmedIatej !. b. Walton, gram
mar J. l.. Brown.
THe next important feature was
the lectures, Is follows: THE
Telc!iur,'' 10y DIR. X. u. Maeser.
"C;vics," by Hon. J. +. Booth, aha
Literature Ey Vim. King, Esq.
Another very interesting part Of
the programme was debate in
which the affirmative side. cham
pi9nei 10y Scott, BrimhalI and
Christensen, resolved: That tine
interests Of the American people
were better guarded by the Repub-
licau party than 10y the Democrat
ic." Bees, Alfred and Wilson OBJ
posed the resolution and the merit
Of the debate was 10 be settled by
the multitude.
The determinations Of the con-
yention may be briefly sIImned up
as follow:
/. Education deals with head.
heart ami hand. its methods should
be orderly, regular and systematic,
aiming AT definite ends and con-
troied 10y fixed principles.
=. The teacher should lrave a
thorough knowledge Of the br.anches
taught and with mind dt.velou-
ment, also a comprehensive kuowI-
edge Ol the general objects Of e,Iu-
cation and a familiar acquaintance
with literature, PASSING events OF
uaily importance, method in plan
ming courses Of study, executive
ability in school management and
class drill and particular power and
wisdom in dealing with Individual
pupils.
:. The Development OF power
should be in the line of least resist
ance consistent with the laws Of
being.
}. That activity Is a law Of child
hood, and exercise the law of pro-
gress, and, therefore, under proper
stimulus ami with proper direction,
what a child does for himself bene-
fits him most.
>. That the times demand cap
able, energetic teachers, with sal
aries sufficiently high to euablc
them TO devote their whsl, time
and attention to the cause OF educa-
ton.
q. That associations Of teachers
such as local faculty meetings,
county associations and summer in
sti,utes are Indispensable factors uf
vital importance in education.
Z. That the late Institute has
been productive Of grand results,
auj that each Of the five DAYS in
itself was a success.
:. That We owea debt Of gratitude
to the lecturers, thanks to the kind
visitors, and a feeling Of high re-
Spect 10 the good people Of Pleasant
valley j. A. r.
SPANISH FORK, July 18th, 1899.