The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-11
THE SCHOOL AT PROVO
Sessions Grow More Interesting all
the Time.
Methods of Instruction Graphically Illus
trates; with Glasses OF Children Some
Very Instructive Lectures.


pride, and extreme sensitiveness about
appearing not to know everything. she
urged them to ask questions in order that
she might be guided to touch such points
IS they would prefer TO hear.
In answer to questions, the lady said:
Never ask a child to tell story until he
knows the story. Let him acquire an
idea before you ask him to express 1t. If
he examines even a tiny ril OF ra1nwater
trickling into puddle, he can acquire an
idea of a river. and express his idea by
drawing.
would begin to teach political geo.
graphy after studying continent as
whole by saying in such section we
find such and such animals and plants,
etc., but not as such division of property
among nations until much later on.
That teacher not knowing the subject in
hand is the greatest cause OF mistakes IN
teaching. l would certainly teach his
tory to beginners In a way TO reach their
capacity. Since they are more interested
IN human beings than anything else,
would begin with the people, narratlVely,
and branch out to their environment.
Professor William M. Stewart followed
with lecture on arithmetic. He was
friend to text books, but found some OF
them faulty nevertheless. When a book
uses one term or symbol indiscriminately
for more than one meaning, begin to re-
bel. The teacher has enough necessary
and unavoidable difficulties without nav-
ing any added by his text books, which
should be his aids. The books do make
errors and the teacher has right, nay. 1T
is his duty to translate and make clear
these things to the child. Mechanical
work must follow after a clear under
standing OF relations. A thorough an
alysls of one problem involving small
numbers is of lar greater educational
value To beginner than many problems
done mechanically IN large numbers.
He illustrated an operation in subtTac-
ton with objects, and showed that to
change ten into units when the units on
hand are less than called for by the sub
trahend. is better and clearer than the
oln, clumsy device of increasing the ten
in the order of tens in the subtrahend.
DIR. Baldwin was the next speaker. He
said he was sorry for his audience because
it was already o clock and they had yet
great battle to fight.
Ideas proceed language Percepts are
scattering, but concept is general no.
ton, a grouping of percepts. When ex-
pressed in language it is a sentence.
Percepts are to concepts what scaffold is
to a house-unnecessar after the concept
becomes perfect, and the building COM
plete.
am endowed with power to discern
class relations, and call this power con-
ception.
The difference between the small con-
ception of the little child and of the pow
erful man is education.
Fellow teachers, live close to the child
and watch its mind growth, and you will
be surprised at what you will see. If prop
erly led very young minds will do good
work in classification, and this faculty
grows almost to the end of life. Where
is the limit to mind growth. Nothing
educates memory but remembering.
Nothing educates imagination but
imagining. Nothing educates conception
but conceiving.
Some school studies are better than
others to develop conception. Do, in the
common schools give most time to those
which most improve and expand the
powers of young minds. In a scale of ten
/ have thus classified the common
branches:
Botany, zoology, mineralogy, 10;
chemistry, geography, etc., s.; grammar,
history, literature, z; geometry. physl-
ology, physics, 5; Latin, algebra, 3.
If you will keep these ideas in view,
you cannot fail to give your pupils better
and better preparation for higher work in
educatian.
Teach the object lesson, lead on to
thinking objects into classes, and build
up such strong minds, and such correct
habits OF thought, that the word i'm
possibility will have no meaning to them.
On Wednesday DR.. Baldwin spoke on
stSchool ECONOMY" He apologized for
reading part of his lecture, and said he
held each speaker should be able to give
his subject from the heart Gave rs his
reason for reading: l have not worked
on these lines long enough to quite mas
ter 1t. l wish TO get your mlnds directed
into this channel, and that is my excuse
for presenting that which yet must read.
effort under intelligent and purposeful
guidance is what educates. +" "Oar race
is brotherhood, anG we ara bound to
consider the educational act condition OF
the whole World.''
He reviewed the condition of China and
Japan admitting that in three decades
Japan has developed school system sn-
perior to that of England, and ascribed il
to the fact that Japan had sent large
numbers of youth to be educated in the
best schools of the world, and then placed
her educational business under their in.
telligent direction.
Spain has slept for three centuries, but
France, like naughty boy who is bene-
fitted by good thrashing, looked about
her, and went to work n earnest, and is
really able to give points to America
France has produced in twenty years tht
best educational system the world ha:
ever seen.
Thousands Of people within a radius O
ten miles are without. church or
schoolhouse. The doctor wants to viSi'
Utah in the beginning of the twentieth
century. because he can see before her
glorious future. The intelligent direc
ton of your great energies has done anc
will do great things.
Waste is the antithsies of economy. ,
said the speaker, and he made an illusira'
dion by comparing the good and the poor
housekeeper. the second law was con-
servative of soul energy.
We are told that one bushel of coal now
does as much work as was once done By
100 bushels, and still nine tenths of its
energy is wasted. To utilize still further
this wonderful energy is the study o.
some master minds.
Even now we are told that in the col
leges of Europe nearly two-thirds of the
students die early, but the remaining
third rule Europe. Our higher institu-
tions ara making great efforts to preserve
the physical health of the student. Ont
person is capable of a limited amount O
effort. When students exhaust thei]
physical energies at manual labor. they
cannot do hard study. Interest is tn.
universal mental lubricant. "Dryas-
DUST is out of date.
de inferred that much time is nov
wasted in porting over learning to spel
and advocated q phonetic alphabet ant
phonetic spelling. Long measures O.
time are now wasted in reading trash
ssDo you believe rational beings would
waste their precious hours in reading trasf
if they were only guided Alright? It is alb
surd.,' Teach the best things. Teach
less and teach it better. Cultivate small
garden thoroughly rather than drag owe