The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-30
sANPETE COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Fourth Session of the Teachers ofic
ia1 Institute.

la1 INSTITUTE.
Spring City, Jan. 29.-The fourth session
of the Sanpete county teachers official in
stitute convened at Spring City Jan. IS, at
p. m, A. c. Nelson, county superintend-
ent, presiding.
The opening exercises consisted of sing
ing by the assembly, after which o. NJ.
/ Sanderson led in prayer.
/ Professor y. l.. Nelson of the Brigham
Young academy disappointed the institute
very considerably by his enforced alb
sence
Professor Heber Nelson of Ephraim oc-
cupied the first hour in a lecture on draw
ms.
] The lecturer made it plain that any oc-
cupation of life is helped by drawing
/ from the farmer to the teacher of ethics,
( although all cannot become artists.
The language of design is universal
/ language and should have more attention
given it than is given to the dead Ian
guages, as being of more practical use to
1 the world of mankind.
He believes any one who can learn to
/ write can learn to draw. but would have
/ it pOpularized among the masses in hav-
| ing it made obligatory in our public
| schools, as in Utah.
Professor Nelson is a pupil of Professor
! d. r. Augsburg and an enthusiastic sup
porter of his system, ana a defender
against attacks recently made against
the artistic doctor he declared and dem
onstrated at length that Dr. Augsburg
system is simple. logical, reasonable. As
against the fundamentals as taught by
u
Cd plan of many teachers, who, though
themselves are able to do commendable
work, must find in the end that their pu-
pills lack basic standard from which to
teach.
The lecturer was critical, and supported
his favOrfte author further in not teach
and the constructive to the same class.
but. dividing them to different ones at
different stages of their progress. and
commended his teachers watchword.
Tasr- tn dr-lxK nv slrsa zinc
turer wOu'1 ut encourage the use of a
rule at any ..l.' but preferred free-hand
work.
Miss Nellie : coru anu party rendered a
song and chorus. "Oh Restless Sea- a
very choice and chaste erection, well rem
P. D. Jensen of the Manu schools dis
cussed at considerable length. What Stu
dies, if Any Should be Supplemented by
the Lecture MethOd2' and. while a val
liable contribution to the matter presented
70 the institute. had the fault of undue
length. and could have been as well pre-
scented in less time.
Professor Jensen gave the cOmprehen-
slve definition Of education to be the lead
ing out or developing of the human mind
in harmony with the laws of nature; the
method employed in the culture of each
faculty of the whole man. combining it
with instruction and school economy thus
citing DR.. Wickersham.
Self-activity of the child he declared for,
as against the lecture system of instruc-
favor of the Socratic method of learning
by which the student was to produce TO
morrow what had been told him today.
bct would have the student become a
thinker. an investigator. an Independent
discoverer, whenever possible. since edu-
cation is not an accretiOn from without
- - development or unfolding from
within.
= activity must have some objective
reality; it can not feed on itself. and must
seek the hest, for too few ask, What is
the best life?''
He deity cited wrong aims and ends
in education. as for instance the pecun-
it contains for breadwinning. while pat
riotiSm and the moral lessons o. passing
events are to be considered right aims.
He would condemn the mimetic process
the machine plans which shape and polish
but do not develop; hence the business
world Is justified in the complaint that
our schools do not produce business men.
Mr.. Lund. of IndianOla. thought Prof.
Jensen mistaken so general condemnation
of the lecture system believing il radically
necessary in many cases, specially in his
tory and geography.
Prof. G. II. Marshall. of the Wasatch
academy. Mt Pleasant. declared that I
aside from the pulpit the lecture platform .
is the most potent factor in education; (
but in dealing with immature minds +
would himself find a happy medium if he +
could do so.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session opened with prayer .
by Samuel Alfred. and was devoted TO /
songs. recitatiOnS and addresses Super
Sanderson spoke on patriotism, and /
Misses Helen Reese and Fanny Coudland, /
and Messrs- A. V. Miner. NJ. o. Miner re- /
cited. and A y. Thalstrup rendered in /
music.
The Saturday session was opened by f,
singing, followed with prayer by Rev. J.
d. Gillian.
o. c. Anderson. of the Mt Pleasant
schools. conducted practical exercise
in music and also said music is neces-
sary to every wide-aWake and successful !
school, surprising any other study as a
development FOR the cultivation of the
taste Cor the beautiful. the harmonious;
but that deeper than melOdious sound is
the ethical PURPOSE of training. as feelings
are deeper than thought and thought
than act.
Damrosch. OF New York. was quoted
as saying that music is not a luxury for
the rich. but necessity for the poor"
Mr.. Anderson stated that children's
voices are easily injured, and cautioned
the teachers against straining them with
hard music.
The tonic sofia system, once so prom
nent he's fallen into the back ground.
Hon. .. Il. Roberts arrived from Eph-
rain at 10 o'clock and was accorded a
warm reception by the ass embed teach
ars. and addressed the institute upon the
invitation OF the president on the subject
If Selection of Ones Life Work. taking
as basis of his remarks an article b.
Prof. Z. Benjamin Andrews, in the Feb
Mr.. Roberts said the real teacher is to
-egard the idea of remuneration as not
he prime affair. but the end is the good
o be dOne-the respect he gains for him
self. and the contribution of value he
AN give TO society. and declared teaching
nora beneficial to the race than many
,ther professions. but that the teacher
IAN never hope TO be wealthy in the COM
non and modern accpetation of the term.
He believed Prof. Andrews mistaken in
laying il lowers teacher in point of de-
al "a
o the children: that the development of
he child mind is an uplifting occupation
Is well as is the society of the teacher
With each other in these monthly insti-
utes.
The teacher is the pioneer of racial and
world advancement. In 1453 the Seljukian
turk conquered Constantinople and drove
ut of her western gates throughout {