The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-13
"a GOOD WEEKS WORK.
Proceedings Of the Summer School at
Provo.
Prof. stewart on Mathematician Inter.
esting Address by Or. Baldwin-Pro-
gramnae for This Week.

At the meeting of the Provo summer
school on Friday afternoon Prof. Stewart
resumed his lecture on mathematics. He
admitted that he had made arithmetic a
hobby and was something of crank on
the subject.
He who settles down to the opinion that
he has the whole absolute truth is on
dangerous because non progressive
ground. The secret of education is train
ing the will Alright; consent and not con-
straint will give that strength which is SO
necessary to good character. In teaching
arithmetic the teachers should not depend
altogether on the book. They should be
able to give additional work at every step
not always to be written, but to
strengthen the judgment of the students.
Prof. Stewart handled his subject
throughout in an able and interesting
manner. He was followed by
DR.. Baldwin, who spoke briefly
OF next weeks work, when the supreme
emotions of the soul, imagination,
reason, love. conscience and will, would
be considered. 'sTake the heart out"
said the speaker, ''and imagination is
almost useless. Reason clips the wings
of Imagination, and keeps us down to
earth. Will, keeps us at work, holds us
to duty, commands the path and pace,
when other faculties have done their
part. Art is the best that is culled from
the heart. Imagination is the power to
form new combinations of our ex-
periences. We are limited to our ex-
periences, we cannot imagine fourth
person. But limit is in this case a bound
less sweep. The combinations can never
be exhausted. All our faculties being in
/ finite, it is necessary to cultivate them
with that idea. Aristotle, with his mar
velous Imagination, touched and I'M
proved every field of science, and after
two thousand years, is still in many
things considered an authority.
wouldn't be a mug-wump. The woman
who is a mugwump will do her scrub
biSg, cooking, and grumble over ii and
grovel in it, while the woman with a
cultivated imagination does her drudgery,
but lives in world infinitely
higher, thinking grand thoughts
while her hands does these homely tasks.
They associate with the best of all ages,
and create worldwide arc beautiful as
earth affords, despite the circumstances
OF birth.
Let us dwell on the growth of magma
tion Just moment. A child is a creature
of the senses. | have lived very near
children. In children phantasy is active.
The fairy tale is true to it and is all right,
but Imagination is feeble, and there are
llttl6 6teDo ludI inuoO 10 tdhOA,
ate to the Kindergarten, and it must begin
there and be taken shrough the other de-
partments. In youth it becomes strong.
It is period of great unrest. There is a
reaching out for the future. A youth
once asked an old man who had made life
a success if he could succeed in the scheme
which he unfolded in all its grand
possibilities. al hesitate to ad-
vise,' said the aged philosopher,
''for from my standpoint of age it seems
n impossible that you will accomplish it,
| but that is what they told me and l have
succeeded. Imagination is stronger in
mature life, and is subject to law. The
first Is we'll directed effort. Whatever
calls it into active use. Take geography
as it has been taught to you this week,
and account it one of the very best aids
to the cultivation of the Imagination. He
can create world with the material lying
around you if he is trained. Then liUera-
ture. Get classic work-it is the highest
ideas embodied in the best form. The
purest, the noblest, and these trashy nov
els, without art or imagination, but
abounding in passion and wrong things,
they will not read.
Beauty is as important TO the growth OF
the soul as reason. This whole world is q
plea for the appreciation OF beauty. The
man with his soul full of beauty will
hardly stoop to ugly moral acts.
w udb you WduO " lGllOW bCdCACiS,
is to understand these things and go out
and work it out in your own way. Let
your pupils give as many of the problems
and answer as many of them as possible.
We can not do SO much for them as they
can do for each other under our direction
7 Bring the bird or cat into the school.
room and let each tell what they know
! about it. DON'T copy the methods O
: other teachers. When two things are
alike one is copy. Boys and girls are
nice things if we understand
them. But understanding then
is almost too much for me. They are ac-
tive. They are bundles of activities tha
must have an outlet. Give them plenty
to do. Let it be such things as feeds tht
J faculties of the mind aud exercises The
,, body. This is an important period, bu
the hard, real student work begins later
The mind may be stored with thousand
, of facts, but the period of analysis ant
synthesis is not yet. Don't expect it o
them, don't require it of them, it is tn
work of mature minds. Don't lecture il
your chools. a person must be educateI
j before they can proftably listen to a lee
= ture. If l get you interested l shall g.
back to Texas feeling that my effort ha