Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-10
AcmcrLrrEE FOR SCHOOLS.

A'AN ilI.' ftHNNI' H'hIA tlttEH.'N W. tii'
State Normll school
The purpose IS TO instruct the Not.
mai stuConts in the most practical and
simple methods of introducing the SUBJ
ject matter Of agriculture into the dis
trict schools.
The arrangement by which the two
institutions might thus cooperate I'm
an important educational movement
has been brought about by desire 90
further the interests of public educa-
ton. Dr. Widtsoc OF the college and
Prof Stewart OF the Normal school
are 10 De congratulated upon the sue
Cessful Inaugural ton OF n cooperative
movement that ls likely 90 result in
such important improvements iu The
work OF the schools Tho people win
also observe with pleasure the friendly
cooperation that is more likely. TN
any event. TO promote the public well
fare. than any form OF activity due TO
personal or local rivalry or 10 the
jealousy of factional strife.
Certain important truths have long
been recognized by leading educators.
and may be briefly formulated some
what as follows.
Interested activity Of mind and body
Is necessity for the life and growth
Of the Young child physically mem
tally and morally. These three lines
Of growth are tied up together and IN
the normal child go hand in hand. act
ing upon each other. The young child
f. continually reaching out through
his special senses to lay hold upon
everything about him. TO test It. TO
know about q. 20 see what its relation
TO himself may be. TO see II he can
use it and make something for him
self with lt. He Dis an initiative being.
dclighting TO say the sounds he hears,
TO represent the action which he sees
and hears described, and. i'm fact. TO
live over and 20 make his own the dif-
ferent experiences OF the people whom
ne sees and OF whom he reads
Many thoughtful people are coming
20 see that our schools have not suf-
ficiently recognized the real condition
Of child Development that the best part
OF the education Of our best people has
been IN the old New England home. and
not IN the regulation school They ser
that the conditions OF present social
life demand that the school shall do
much OF the work which was formerly
done IN the home; that the school can
do much better work. even along ira
ditional school lines, IL It viii con-
slider the child as he is, society as Il
is, and the ways In which the children
Of the past have been most helped to
develop into good, helpful citizenship.
And by Introducing into the school
some Of these ways, they would base
the other work Of the school upon this.
The fact is being recognized that the
child must be prepared for life by
learning TO live Life in school must De
natural many-sided and harmonious.
Life al school must be related 10 life
at home. on the street, in the field. and
IN the various human activities OF the
village. Typical occupations are be-
ing gradually introduced into the
school so that through these the chill
dren may come into live personal
contact with the kinds Of things which,
they need 20 know and 10 be able TO do.
Prof Stewart informs us that this ls.
in general. the aim OF the state Nor
NAL school To illustrate that aim m
several great departments OF life. IL is
only necessary 10 look at the work |
which the children OF the state Normal |
do iu the school garden. in the hand |
crafts, in ART and In domestic work /
THE school garden consists OF about slX |
acres OF fertile sou under close culu- |