Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-30
Reception and Banquet rendered
BY Mrs. Ida Smoot Dusenberry
Is Largely Attended.
ADDRESS BY GOV. CUTLER.
Fclicitatcs Graduates to Ranks of the
New Child Culture and Pays Trib.
ute 10 DR.. Karl G.. Macscr.

AUTHORIZATION tehcUeiS at the brigham
Young university Saturday, was attend
ed by many prominent educators from
salt Lake City and other parts OF the
state.
President George II. Brimhal of the
Brigham Young university delivered an
eloquent address OF welcome, to which
Coy. Cutler responded, and also well
coined the kindergarten into the states
public school system.
After expressing appreciation of the
welcome extended to the visitors, he
said;
Both In itself ana FOR its meaning I'm
the English language, there are few If
any more beautiful words than he
good old German Kindergarten The
suggestion 1t presents of garden i'm
which the children are brought up Ike
tender plants, Is so appropriate and fits
so well with the kindly and attractive
ideas OF modern education, that we feel
debt OF gratitude to the German who
gave the word to US. 1t Is so pleasant
to contemplate the natural and SYM
pathetic way in which our children are
nurtured in the "children's garden"
especially TO us whose early training
was so different. For ] think most of
us can remember the time when we
were brought up" by our teachers in
different and altogether harsher man.
ner Not that we did not deserve some
Of this kind OF treatment, but a larger
admixture Of kindness would have been
appreciated.
at seems to me that no one who has
children, and has given careful thought
to the mission and the methods OF the
kindergarten, can fail to be an enthusi-
astic advocate Of IL. Where the natural
elements of child life are taken into
account in the training Of the littie
one and use is made OF all the healthy
activities OF childhood, the best re-
suit are sure to be accomplished. !
am firmly convinced that there are no
qualities possessed by the child which
cannot be used to advantage In its ed
ucation. The day has long passed
| when any great number Of people be-
| lieve in the natural depravity Of the
| child or attribute its busy and some-
| times destructive tendencies TO the In
spiration OF the evil one. Indeed the
wonder Is that any one should ever
| have believed II.
81 am of the firm opinion that no
| child was ever born with an over
| whelming tendency toward sin. | be-
| lIeve that the natural activities Of chill
| dren are to be directed not Suppressed.
| To you experienced educators this
| statement must naturally seem trite
| and commonplace, but ! regret 10 say
| that II f. not so carefully applied by
| the average parent. The don't Is used
| altogether too much In the family, as
| II was formerly in the school. But
| now, thanks to Pestalozzi, Frobel and
| the other great leaders in modern edu-
| cation, the child Is encouraged along
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| discouraged along the line of the don't
| Another great advantage, rightly at
| trlbuted TO the work and guidance OF
| the kindergarten, is the child's ac-
| duaintance in earliest lief with the ma
| ture and use Of familiar and useful OBJ
| jects. This includes as well the cultiVa-
ton OF the faculties Of observation ana
| Judgment without which a person Is 50
| HELPLESS In the keen competition he Will
| be compelled 10 meet. Thrift has been
| defined as the best use Of our ma
terials,' Whether those materials be
| tools money, land, livestock, pens.
| books, or what not, the proper use or
them is thrift; and the laying OF tho
foundation for that thrift Is done IN the
| klndergarten. For there the child is
trained from the first IN the use Of the
various objects until he Is skilful in II.
I'm this connection | cannot forbear
| LAYING particular stress on the value Of
| the promptness and accuracy acquired
I'm the kindergarten, In observing and
| Judging the form, color and qualities OF
natural and artificial objects az applied
10 the practical affairs of life, OF
equal Importance too are the various
! forms OF constructive ability developed
I'm the kindergarten. | think that the
progress OF the child is a good test OF
The fitness OF the kindergarten 20 the
needs Of the child.
pThen. It Is a well known fact that
| those studies which we call merely for
NAL. as English, mathematics history,
the Languages, etc, are commenced In
the kindergarten In the more natural
and easy way, and a foundation laid fol
the pursuit of them, which the child
cen scarcely help building on. Il Is In
thus appealing to and using the natural
tastes and activities of the child that
the hest I'm him is brought out and he Is
most fully prepared for the struggle he
will soon enter upon. And the result OF
this training IL In no wise diminished
but rather Increased, by the fact thar
the work Is really mere play. The only
difference, after all, between work ana
| play IL that they are both forms or ao-
tivity the first with effort, the Second
/
| activities OF the school from the lowest
| grade. were made work. they are now
| and especially In the beginning OF the
| chIld's progress, made largely matter
| OF play, And this Is as II should DO
Therein consists another great value
OF the kindergarten.
at Is most fitting that the anniver-
sarv OF the man who originated tht
kindergarten idea should be rcyerentlS
observed, not only by those who are de-
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kindergartens. but by all who are inter-
ested in the welfare OF children. AS
| parent, and as one particularly inter
ested In good citizenship, | rejoice ~
the ever widening application OF Kin
dergarten principles TO the training o
children And am glad that under IL
law now In effect children of all com
munlties OF considerable size VIII b.
given the opportunity OF such training
II am asked to welcome into IN
ranks Of the states klndergartners IN
Young ladies' who are graduate iron
the training course here conducted.
have no words but praise for thos
who devote their lives and their tai
cnts to the work of training the III
tire citizens of the state. There
no nobler work There Is no Nor
that Is farther reaching In It's influ
once for good And this is particular
true Of those who take charge " chill
dren at the tender kindergarten age
Therefore 20 you young women WI
be entrusted duty next In sacrehnes
aud importance to that vi tho moth
| ers OF the children you train an
sure you will bring To that work I'll
skill, the tact and the loving kindnes
which will sanctify 1t to the eterno
benefit of the little ones entrusted I
your care, I wish you Godspeed an
all possible satisfaction IN the grea
iahors to which YOU are deyotlng your