Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-18

lie must kNOW INV paw ''N'" 'f
materials are transported, ana OF the
conditions under which they are pro-
duoed. lie learns, through the Develop
ment OF the home industries Of the
great factory systems and OF questions
OF economic Importance. lie Is Inter-
ested in knowing what takes place
when heat 10 applied to starch or al
bumen, and why the yeast plant grows
under certain conditions and not under
Others, thus becoming acquainted with
the great laws Of chemistry physics
and biology.
In spite OF the fact that the support
ers Of the formal education claim mat
this work is crowdlng out valuable snp-
jects, the faculty holds that II enhances
and gives new interest 10 them ana
that the work Of the whole school IS
stronger anG more vitality important TO
the child because Of the individual en-
perIence aud constant application
The child learns to make OIL stitches
TO purchase and use materials proper
methods OF doing house work ana COOK
ing plain foods In the upper graa,s
the work grows more technical, but htlll
satisfies need, which Is more directly
connected with home and social He
The manual training work shop Of me
school ia place In which visitor may
spend hours In observation ana proll'
A faint idea OF what Is accomplished
there under the direction Of Mr. Bond
can be formed from the reading OF The
matter under one Of the cuts on this
page. The nature study department
under Prof Horace Cummings also
forms an object lesson worth ponder
ing upon. There the pupils pursue IN
practical way all Of the studies That
come under that head.
Prof. Stewart is one Of the most en-
thusastlc advocates OF manual tiain'
ing in the state. He said that county
superintendents had appealed TO the
University IN great numbers 10 Assist
in bringing about the extension of man
nal training In all Of the schools Of the
state. He saw no reason why TINS
should not be done II Is quite natural
that the mperintendents OF education
should turn their inquiries In the direc'
ton OF the University normal training
school for, as Prof Stewart puts II,
Il n the states educational experiment
station. Said he
when that Is done there VIII be no
necessity for reform Nhool In Utah
Then we will be able TO take care OF
our motor boys, the boys who give W.
the most trouble because they are the
least understood, why I have seen
most wonderful results achieved In n
remarkably short space of time, For
instance, two months ago two boys
were brought to this school who had
been expelled from the city schools
The mother Of one was. q widow. She
came to us and pleaded for her son
and asked us TO give him a chance
He was one Of those restless, ever moy-
ing boys who find II impossible TO te-
main quiet lie had tried the city
schools and had grown tired Of books,
They had no interest for him OF course
he never had his lessons and soon
commenced to play the part OF a truant
Sud give more or less trouble IN yar-
Gus ways, lie was voted an incnnlglbe
and expelled He was on the way to
the reform school and a bad life when
we got him. We put him into The man
ual training shop where he found the
opportunity Of working OF his excess
energy. The result was, when be went
back to his study room he became In.
terested IN his books What was true
of him was true Of the other boy Today
they are making useful and ornamental
articles for almost everybody In the
school, They always have their les
sons now They have found an oppor-
tUnity 10 combine their motor and In
tellectual nclinations. The one Is not
working alone while the other is left
idle, Both are getting good all around
education, and both will, / am sure, be
useful citizens
Provision must absolutely be made
for the motor boy. Manual
training schools give the solu-
tlon to a long obtaining obsta-
Gle. The motor boy Is the boy who
skates and plays. ball who will make
the best practical farmer who Will
make the things that his father needs
upon the farm that his mother needs
in the house, He Is more useful than
the purely intellectual boy can ever
hope to be- What the state should 90
is TO take the motor boy and the intel
lectual boy and help them both along.
That Is what we intend TO ask the leg
islature TO do throughout Utah. In
America the workshop has been re-
moved from the home to the factory.
In Europe the workshop Is still at The
home. This is one case whore the Euro
pean method is superior 70 our own
Professor you have had a good deal
TO say about the motor boy--what about
the motor girl? Are there any suoh2'
Yes; very many We have the Girl
who can't set her studies; who can't
sit stlll az her desk for long periods
without seriously endaugerng her
health. But let us put her in the htch-
en- for awhile, where she learns to cook.
or In the sewing room, where she learns
10 make articles OF wearing apparel
and to mend and darn, and in a little
while she Is ready to come back % her
more intellectual work with a renewed
interest She suddenly discovers that
her book contains something more fas.
olnating than she ever found before"
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