The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-09
CHILDREN, TOPIC
Of DR.. HUGHES
Pleasing Address Is Delivered by
Educator at Assembly
Hall.
DISTINCT PERSONALITY
FOUND IN EACH CHILD
Teachers Warned Not to Dwarf
Child While Giving
Culture.

Dr. James l. Hughes has mission
to perform. He made the audience
that listened to his address In the AS
sembly hall last evening feel that fact
keenly DR.. Hughes has spent more
than forty years of his life In edu-
cational work. AS Superintendent of
the public schools of Toronto, Canada,
he has had a broad field to gather eX-
perience in and his protest against the
formalitles of education, and the dwarf
ing effect too frequently produced on
the child were regarded as timely by
those who heard It. Last evenings ad-
dress was delivered under the auspices
of the University of Utah summer
school. The public Is invited to lectures
which VIII be given by DR., Hughes at
3 p. III. and S p. m. today in Museum
hall al the University campus
In every child DR.. Hughes sees
special soul, a distinct personality and
an individuality with powers like unto
those of none other To aim to make
this child like its father or mother or
any other person, the speaker declared
a mistake, and added: THAT child is
Gods"
Love for Doing Things.
In every child as IT comes into life,
the speaker said. there is a love for
doing things for doing things especial
ly which the child has planned itself.
children love TO play together added
the speaker That Is the work God
has planned for them" In the culti-
walton of these great central elements
the speaker dscerned a more potent
power for Christianity than in formar
religion itself But In his opinion, the
destruction in battle Is small as com
pared with the destruction from the
dwarfing of these three elements In
the child.
And then. speaking more directly to
| the teachers present, he said. Wo
must not dwarf the child while giving
| II culture and training. We have de-
| graded the child, we have failed 10 reo-
| opnIZe and reverence In It the Divine.
| We have taught thousand times too
| much and trained ten thousand times
| too much In the wrong direction. one
| do is worth n thousand don'ts. We
have made children negative instead
| of positive Train up the child in the
J way that he should go; not In the way
| that he should not go,
Calls for Obedience.
The speaker insisted that the new
J education calls for obedience, but he
| drew, a distinction between obedience
| and subservlence which he declared the
! basis of slavery. DR. Hughes also pre-
| obey law rather than some domineerins
Individual These laws then would be-
come active and productive Instead OF
| being restrictive and restraining
| AGAINST the common idea of self-con-
| troll taught the child-that control
| which merely restroins-the speaker
! also uttered a protest. DR., Hughes In
! STATS that we must not only not teach
| the child not to do the wrong thing,
| but must show il the right thing to do,
| so that 1t may use It's power for God.
| More sermons from preachers on the
| good things man ought TO do rather
! Than the evils from which he shall re-
strain would make this better world
| was another Idea expressed.
] Rights OF Children.
Rather caustic treatment was given
the old adage, that q child should speak
| nnIv when spoken to. The speaker
thought II just as impudent for man
| to interrupt child as for child TO
Interrupt n man. on this point nc ven
| ,b n child VIII pay