The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-10-25

shape the mind and character
they are not to be seen in the swir
of social affairs. You say a teache
should take a teachers place. an
SO he should, but people have mis-
judged the place.
| want French and German laugh
in the schools when we get them u
to it; | want all the nice things
all the beautiful things taught; -
want them saturated with the beau
tiful-but we need somebody to d,
the saturating. ,(Applause) l wan
real teachers to do it. Do not leav,
it to the plumber. Remeber-I d,
not object to the plumber as a plum
Der, but LIDO not want a plumber tt
do the teaching, nor a teacher t
spoil fine job of plumbing.
Get acquainted with the teacher.
and schools. (Applause) A teacher
is better able to train child wher
she knows the family. You should
know what the schools are doing
Visit them and see what progress we
are making.
You may have heard a great dea
about the theory of education, and
have an aversion to the phrase, but
there is theory of education, and
there must ever be If anything is tc
accomplished, and it must recognize
three things or principles, and those
principles must be observed and prac.
tically followed. 1t is our duty to
educate mentally, morally and physi.
cally. All three are equal and in SO
far as you neglect one, you cripple
the others. Moral education should
be divided into two parts, moral and
religious training. When we all be-
lieve alike, we can teach religion
but nobody is qualified to teach you
all. Doctrine does not belong to the
public schools, but | believe in Bible
reading once every day to turn our
thoughts for a few moments each
day to the consciousness that after
all, and over all there is God. CAP
plause)
There Is a period in a boys life
that is most difficult to handle, and
anything that is soft or gentle, he
scorns as being womanish. This
period is necessary to develop the
masculine in his nature and his char
acter. 1t is possible to respect this
and train him to do some things in
a proper way. You may teach him
proper and healthful ways to sit;
to stand; to salute etc, in obedience,
but there are many ways in which
he will try your patience, for moth
ing seems to make any dent in his
mind.
Mental training should train all
the senses. Not simply one. or two
nor four of the senses and leave the
others undeveloped, but train all a.
like. Manual training Is most neces-
sary to the harmonious development,
for God promised-call it nature If
you like-promised us in the begin
ming, that by the sweat of our brow
we should live. He gave an order
to do things. We read this in nature,
for wherever we find child in its
natural bent, 1t shows a desire to do.
1t will work diligently for almost
any length of time to do what 1t sees
others doing. A little girl wants to
sew. She will pull for five minutes
at time to get pin thru gar
ment II It is only given to her for
needle so she can play she is sewing
The satisfaction of getting 1t thru,
repays her for all the trouble and
tugging of doing 1t. She loves the
doing. Let child have set of
blocks, and witness the doing that
follows. Building. building, building
why? To satisfy the desire to do
And why shut 1t off? How much
better to give 1t material to work
WITH "-d To- T. nse IN its energy
IN naturnl wpv.
Vow to ~" ~ ".
7 hovn been taIkir" N vow about
rrarual t~ainine. but 7 have not told
WOW in fetain how to amply II. 7 sup
nose some Of Won are members Of
the school boards at your home
towns. and want to know details.
Nv s"hool board here has given ns
= carpenter shop. IT is not ready
vet but II will be soon, and we shall
he training our bows. do not ex
nett to make caroente~s Of the bove
Int do exne"t to train their facul-
ties. Western bows are sloppy. and
thew reed this trainiro. Now 7 viii
explain what J mean by this. Here
In the west where farms are so
large, where land is plentiful and