Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-07
TALK BY DIR. HUGHES.
Discusses Influence OF kindergarten
On Higher Education.

Dr. James l.. Hughes, one Of the fore
most educators Of Canada, gave a most
interesting talk In the Assembly hall
last night on "The Educatlona Forces
of the Home aud the School, and the
influence Of the kindergarten on High
er Education" The meeting was held
under the auspices Of the Utah state
Teachers association and was largely
attended by teachers and leading edu-
ctors Of the state.
Dr. Hughes prefaced his remarks
with complimentary allusiOn to Prof.
William NJ. Stewart and Mrs. Susa Y,
Gates, both of whom he had had the
pleasure of meeting some time before,
Then launching out upon his subject he
declared that the home, the school and
the church We're the three great agen-
cies which We're TO uplift the world.
the uplifting TO be brought about
through the child He then took up
the training of the child, showing that
old customs had become obsolete and
that today II was absolutely essential
that the nature Of the child be made a
subject of study and Investigation
Froebel. said Or. Hughes had done per-
haps more than any other individual
to emphasize to the world the neces-
sty of studying children for them
selves. In order TO be able 10 do this
DIR. Hughes declared that II was neces-
sary for teachers to study kindergarten
principles and that these principles
should form part Of the curriculum
Of colleges and universities
THE highest ideal in the develop
ment Of the child" said Dr. Hughes,
lis the conscious growth toward God.
Froebel worked for q correlation OF the
three greatest Influences on the life
Of the child toward this end. For this
the idea of expression is the only
means. We know nothing till we can
express our knowledge to others. The
old theory Of putting IN as an educa-
ton has been displaced by the theory
Of putting out or expressing. The
tendency Of growth Is tTansfor-
nation. and all education must be
along the line Of ohange-creative, not
initiative. Every soul should bring
something new into the world Froebel
and Dickens wrote In sympathy with
the child not from sympathy for the
child, and they transformed the disci-
IiiN' VI iNf NAilNHi anu VI Nut lApiilNs
All discipline az consequence is
changed from what It was a generation
ago, This marvellous change is due
more 10 Froebel than TO any other man.
In other days the lfeess boy In the
schoolroom was the good boy; today
II IS the living boy who Is the good
one-good for something The world
wants doors today not don'ters; posi-
tlves, not negatives The boy who was
once called bad boy was not bad, but
twisted. We should he responsible for
the wrong we do. but not nearly so
much so as for the good we should do.
There are two, kinds of self-con-
seriousness, the consciousness Of weak
ness and the consciousness Of power Of
God-giyen strength. II Is the latter
with which we should seek 10 imhue
the young This IS not done by criti-
clsm. but by recognizing and appreciat-
ing the best IN all things and peonle.
We should not look for perfection. but
for progress. and above all parents and
teachers should cultivate the ability to
see the good"