Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-01-30
WE LlyE AND LEARN.


A very Influential aai widely rend
periodical nmlng those Or whom % 90
especially rrnlur,s' as iuiic1.'iin
lis title, Is ITmaiy Education. O.
monthly published iu Boston aud now
fairly started GA .'s second ycar 20
seems 20 DO cafr.uUy edited, and with.
in iia 80 pages may be found great
variety Of Interesting and valuable iu'
formation for those great cv1ngoa Of
Hight aud kuowlr4go-iho pf.mty
ioacheis. The Nrws has read tlr
January rumhrr will much pleasure
and has boon r,rtIeularly struck with
a letter published on the "Couefp5nd-
cucoD page, floating upon the public
schools Of Sal, Lake cry.
"Only three years ago,"aayl the
wrlier, iiho public schools were or.
ganizsi. Untl that time all children
who received an education were obllgci
10 attend church or private school.
In mos, casos these schools were held
In small buildings near or attached 20
the 'mcoting.houseB.' The niaiorllyoi
parents were too poor 10 pay the re-
luired tuition, consequently o1y a
small number Of o'iidrcn rccsiusd creH
nc rudmsnis OF an ,dueai,on." (rHu
italics are ourb.l
Then follow couple Of paragraphs
about the great educational avalanche
that came with tho ultonlno %, u board
Of education in 1900, tue employment
Of about one hundred teacher, the use
Of "stoTer, dwcll.ug.houFcs aud iho
old sohoolhousos which were made as
comfortable as p9ssible," all resulting
~ an amount OF work that "wouli have
astoniahod quiet eastern city" IL
was grand opportunity 10 establish
ideal schools, the writer c1nuuueF,
because "there wcro no old ideas "a
overthrown-it WAS like beginning in
now aud unlroddcn 6elui before, O
virgin wilderness; 10, now, an vdu 1a'
uonal pRIadisr.
But pro.rgssive modern thinker.
wuIo nrolo.l Whcgr could they De-
haa2 IHmuy ldgoat9G's cor.
rfplndont is candle; rho [ %,
Tho writer Is lRdyl says tnaI
"E7od experienced tynchen from
many parts Of the Eastern states were
called" The attractions Of tho won.
deFlul Salt Lake Valley, iis historic iu.
forest, 50 ovct-snow.clad mountains, Ne
heRl;hiul climate, etc., otc., were some.
thing OF an iuducomunl. Rut IN ad.
diii0n TO scenery and climate "thoy
were given large salarlcs.n 80 wonder
that "many responded 10 tho CALL
Alas, they found "Mormou aud Con.
tile children Attending the same
school," aud call craving mental
food." They arc bright, smart chill.
dren, and "haulHg 6GcH dslTirCt0f the
advantage ui public schools Tor 90
long, they look upon Thorn as a special
privilege" etc, oic, Very c0mpl-
meutary reference IL mado TO the
efficiency Of M. M,llgpnugh anI "a d
harmony o, Tho associations between
him and the tCachou-lll Of which
every local reader win eui0mc-aud
there area few plylsanly given ngur,G
as 10 school expenditures aud th1 On.
crease in scaoluu aud leachou; finally,
siguet, "M. Adelaide Hal,on, super.
Visor VI Primary schools"
We Thought cur rgaIom waull ba
pleased with this article, hence we
have glvsn IL q ha8ly review. Partlcu-
larry viii th,y lind delight IN those
portions relating 10 tho den iguor-
aucu tina, prevailed prior to the advent
OF the eastern people, whore affection
i-r Snowy mountains nni hoalthml
climate was not Giuil ned by tho
prospect OF Argu wages or tho appai.
ling ditcly1ry that Mormon aud GEN.
lilo childrfn wcra attending tho same
school, with but very Tow receiving
even the gug.ments OF an education. or
o5uus We ui Eaow That tho presou.
schools OF Salt Lake CRY have reaciv
the benefit OF the expenditure OF vast
sums a. money and are siying zoo
evidence 'hat tho money was we'll
spent. Bat Wa an did no. Gnlw, until
We received The dig'um o. sons 8f
these recent Inspirations, that cur
educational condition before they
besmed the light o, their Intelligence
upon ua was 80 hop lessiy pluul An
ought to be able TO rejoice, therefore,
that Understandings rusponte to tho
call on the part Of these "good cx.
perienced' eastern omigrana was
70 geneTous;lt has resulted no. only a.