The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-07
B. II. Roberts Lectures on Sub
ject at Barratt Hall We'd
nesday Night.
LESS OF CLASSICS
AND MORE OF TRUTH
Ecclesiast Advocates System of
Pensions for Teachers Grown
Old in Service.

CO. The Education Of The Twentieth
Century, was the subject upon which
=, H. Roberts Iccturcd before the sum
mer institute Of the teachers in the
Latter-Day Saints schools at Barratt
Hall, Wednesday night. The lecture
was advertised to begin mt 8 o clock,
but as many of the teachers are of the
alumni of the L. of u, and the annual
banquet was given Wednesday night.
the session began at clock, so as
to permit the teachers to ioin III the
festivities of the alumni
Mr.. Roberts stated that his interest
in the subject grew out of the discus
sion that took place through American
magazines and newspapers at the time
of the generous beqnest Of Ceel
Rhodes Of scholarships in Oxford, Eng.
land, which apply in Great Britain and
also in the United States That gen
erons act seemed to awaken discus
sion of the education of the twentieth
century and the keynote of that dis
education as between the nineteenth
and the twentieth centuries. 1t was
held that there Will be less of classics
and more of truth; that there VIII be
less effort at impnrting knowledge ana
more attention devoted to cultivate ca
pacity and power TO acquire knowledge
in the individual. The utilitarian idea
Of education will gain greater victories
even than 1T has achieved during tne
past twenty wears. Mechanical arts
will be emphasized, and some OF the
writers even went so far as TO quote
Ruskin to the effect that IT you teach
a boy to saw board straight ana 10
draw even and to draw circle with
a pencil. YOU have at least half com
pletcd his education.
Attention to Truth.
The subject matter of education IN
the twentieth century VIII be more at"
tention to truth. 1t will deal with the
larger study of the univcrsc-of the
nature rm of matter and force, 1t will
teach the nature of man and his rcla-
tionship to the universe and to each
other. and to governments and their ma
lures and character, and man DUTY
in society and to government, ana these
with the emphasis upon mechanical arts
will be the characteristics ot the couca"
ton of the twentieth century,
Turning his attention to the. specIal
features Of their church education. Mt
Roberts contended that Brigham Young
lone ago, indicated that these were the
lines along which education should be
developed, adding thereto tins great
fundamental principle, that man, To
know himself, the universe and the re-
lationship between them, must also
| learn TO know God. and God Is re-
ve,led and known through Jesus Christ
and his attributes are the attributes OF
deity.
In support of this contention, Mt
! Roberts read numerous extracts from
the savings and writings of Brigham
Young. knowledge was power even IN
The hands of the emissarles or evli, any
the man who did not study the primer
nile of evil and account for Its existence
! hnro couId not be considered an edu
Gated man.
Ii was not intended that the church
schools shall become sectarian IN then
character. urged Mr.. Roberts, II they
arc religious they are nevertheless:
! broadly religious, not sectarlan. IN SPIT
il. owe should not only study good,
said Mr. Roberts land ITS erect upor
our race; but also eNll ana aus 'on'e
| quences.
Payment in Kind.
In one of his quotations from Brig
ham Young, the question of the com
pcnsation Of teachers was alluded to AZ
The "pavment in kind - Mr.. Roberts
CONGRATULATED them that those days oi
"payment in kind" had passed away
Prof. Cummings, who presided, inter
rupted by saying that up until few
months ago IheN tooN pne-i""i'" I" -
Mr.. Roberts replied: "Well. YOU ar.
Vbetter Off than / am, for even, TO-DAY
have to take some of mine IN kind
Tn conclusion. Mr.. Roberts advovate'
the pensioning of teachers. He said
"Thc ability 20 teach the Young is
pift so rare and calls for combina
t;on of faculties so seldom found tina
when YOU find it, it ought to be al
most like the pearl of great price, !
ought to be fostercd encouraged anc
employed and helped. and it ought Il
receive this recognition not IN mer'
lip appreciation, but in substantial as
surances and realization that shall pu
the idea of turning to any other EN-
plovment entirely out of the mind, 81
that there can be a concentration Il
that life and character of the nobl
work To teach and instruct our youth
both in the State and in the church. -
After citing the pension,ng system
in the British army. Mr.. Roberts con
cIuded: "When You turn TO the teach
er and think of the sacrifice he ha
made. it stands away and above th
service given by the soldiers who wer
so willingly pensioned, and for mysel
stand committed to the policy of pen
sioning cur teachers after. they hav'
given say twenty years of service t.
their country