Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-11
EDUCATING EDUCATORS
Proceedings at The Summer School at
Provo.
The Assembled Teachers are TuTihcr
Entertained with InteiIeet'
uRI Food.

On Wednesday evening Or. Bald.
win spoke on school economy. lie
said In substance; This subject Is new 10
me, new to the world. am not DESTROYS
that II should be published In It's pres.
ent crude condition. Abouttwo years
from now, when have had time 10
work II over, will DO ready TO present
It to the public. hut desire you to
become interested In II, and 40 give II
to you tonight In this form. | want
you TO ask yourselves how you can best
apply what am going 70 tell you to
the good Of your pupils and tho beet
interests Of your beloved Utah. Effort
under law il what educates. our race
Ia n brotherhood and we are bound 10
consider the condition OF the whole
world.
The speaker then reviewed tbs edu-
cational systems or methods OF
Mexico and China, aud con.
trasted ahe stagnation Of the
latter with the intelligent progress
being made by Japan. II Is thought
and original investigation IN this In.
dividual, said he, that make progressi
not memorizing definitions ana re.
peating maxims. Spain has slept for
three hundred years In this regard,
while France, by placing her cduca.
tlonal System In the hands OF the best
educators that could be found, has In
twenty years placed herself In the
front ranks OF education, has, Ia TACT,
the best system tho world has ever
seen. tee before Utah "A great future.
The intelligent direction OF your great
energies should he able To move tho
world. / would like TO DO here IN the
twentieth century.
The second law OF education II con,
Aefvatism Of soul energy. One hushel
OF coal Il now made to do the same
work that hundred used 10, anu still
nine-tenths OF itH energies afe wasted
To utilize still further this last power
will be the noble wOrk u
some master mind. Even now
we are told that In the colleges Of Eu-
rope twO.thirdB OF the studentA die
b1lOre they can uuO education they
gain, many while actually IN tho
school room. but the remaining third
rule Europe. Ono person Is only cRpg.
ble Of limited amount OF effort. Ii Il
true, though denlOrable, that our
industrial schools have been education
failures. The energy expenued In
learning mechanics was lost In the
intellectual field. Here IN great
problem TO solve. We need some vi
you 10 give Us u new system OF spell.
ing. We waste time year, OF time
with the present method. We want
u phonetic alphabet aud phonetic
spelling.
Educate taste for the best things.
Teach the best things In the most
direct and interesting way. Teach n
few CHOICE things and teach them
thoroughly.
The third great law is work IN
unity. Isolation IL death. Unit.
ing Ia economy and development.
How may We secure this unity In ali
lines OF work. Precepls not assinii.
lated into concepts are vested; con.
cepts not thought into truths AMI
applied are wasted. No person ga
Justly estimate tho fearful waste OF
human energy In our public schools
from this cause, Successful lives ne
the crown Of all achievements This
end IL gained by work wisely directed.
wish could emphasizes this one
word, Work. You may make your
lives Of priceless value, but you must
work. Choose Wisely ana then con,
centrate your energies ON that one
thing. Save energy by promoting IT,
growth In proper channels,
On Thursday morning Miss ZoIla
Barber spoke OF "AiethOds OF Teach.
ing" A class Of third or fourth grade
pupils being SEATED ON the platform In
sight and bearing OF the teacher, thr
lesson In collective Geography be-
gan In illustrating, Miss Barber used
the black board freely, She took tho
class through the minutia Of mountains
their slopes, uses, extent, variety,
shapes, etc. Tho children were wilde,
awake, showing plainly that they
were not depending on any previous
drilling for the answers they should
rem der, but were giving intel.
ligent attention to the idpae
being presented by their teacher
and thinking out correct answers.
They worked with nm unconscious
eRrnestness truly delightful TO witness.
By the aid OF Iuestions anu suggestions
tue class demonstrated the theory Of
water distribution step by step. The