Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-03


Plan for Intercommunication Work"
]. A. Smith on Some Things | Do and
Some Things do Not Do +. w Ot-
terstrom on Results In Shorthand;oJ
Katherine McCrory on ''Typewriting,"
and 7. u. Smith of the j. Y. Y. at
Provo on Relative Value of the Four
year BUSINESS Course Compared with
Other Four-year Courses
Following the lecture this afternoon
a small delegation planned to visit the
Hermitage in Ogden canyon as guests
of Supt. Allison. In the party are ProI.
Cooley, Principal Eaton, Miss Arnold;
Miss Pollock, Secretary Gillilian ara
Wife, and the representative of the
News Another party is being made
up TO visit the state deaf and dumb m
stitution and still another is going out
over the famous IIucin CUTOFF.
This afternoon there are In preparn-
ton number of resolutions which VIII
be offered at the business meeting TO-
morrow afternoon,
At a grammar department meeting
this morning j. S. Welch of Salt Lake
was appointed president and 5. +. Egg
gertson OF Provo. secretary.
WILL ASK FOR $4,000.
The legislature will be asked by the
teachers convention now In session 10
make an appropriation of $4,000 for the
providing of n school for the training
of children who are mentally weak or
backward in their studies. The instl-
tuition would be, not of punitive ma
ture, but entirely in the way of remedy
for defects found in the youthful mind.
A committee has been named to draft
a suitable resolution to be passed upon
by the convention before IL ad1ourns,
consisting OF the following. DR. Brown
Ewing. of Salt Lake; 6. NJ. Munford,
of Murray and l.. .. Carbon, OF Logan.
THIS AFTERNOONS SESSION.
At this afternoons session in the
Grand Opera House Miss Arnold be-
gan her talk upon the problem of
school discipline by addressing her
remarks particularly to young teach
ers. She said, The beginner often
says. I know l can teach. but have
much trouble in discipline, Most OF
us have fought our way through trials
and tribulations to Il clear conception
of school discipline. This address is
intended partly as a retrospective to
those who have attained and as an
encouragement to those who have to
learn"
The term discipline was defined by
the speaker to mean the right be-
havor on the part of pupils, and
school was described as we'll disci
plined when the students were well
behaved and the work for which they
are assembled progresses without in
terruption or difficulty. Miss Arnold
pointed ont n distinct difference be-
tween discipline which gets good be-
havior in schools at the expense of
character and initiative. She warned
teachers to be careful not to make
prigs in stopping students from talk
ing, snowballing and such things. The
method which she advocated to Sc
cure good behavior was to teach self
control and ability to govern ones
self, instead of intimidating students
by punishment.
THE MAKING OF PRIGS.
The point was emphasized that the
teacher must constantly look when en-
forcing discipline, beyond the school
room to a period when her student be-
comes citizen, with duties and re-
sponsibiities to the state. A number OF
practises common in the schoolroom
we're treated with reference TO effective
ness of forces making for discipline.
The practise of appointing monitors
during the teachers absence was
severely condemned. THE monitor
watches for misdemeanors, said Miss
Arnold. land reports them when the
teacher returns, and the offender is
punished. The monitor becomes d lit
tie prig, who win never be wanted any
where. the heart of the offender is filled
with hatred. and he gets even for ii,
while the whole school forms an idea
that sin lies in being found out and re-
ported, and not In the msdemeanor. In
other words. they are to behave when
they are watched. and are not supposed
to be good on other terms
HEAD OF CLASS" DEPLORED.
With equal severity, the habit of
placing children at the head or foot of
the class for good or bad behavior was
condemned. 1T is a mistake" she said.
ITO think that this seeds the children
Oh the path of knowledge. 1t really
makes the dull ones indifferent and
makes the good ones stupidity proud of
every LITTLE achievement"
Self-control was then taken as the
great object of good school discipline
True discipline she said, "can teach
self-control. Arbitrary discipline weak
ems and defeats this power. It is one
only through wisely directed choice In
the school where lf-government has
been encouraged, the pupils have be-
come faithful to responsibility. True
harmony can only come through wise
patient and faithful discipline"