The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-23
SCHOOL TEACHER
MIGHTY FACTOR
Charged With Duty of Winning
Young Over to Civilization
and Social Order.
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION
GREAT STRIDES HAVE BEEN
MADE, SAYS DR.. SUZZALLO.
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION

Ihat the school teacher is mightier than
the battleship is the firm conviction of
Dr. Henry Suzzallo, Ph.D., of Columbia
University. who, last evening in the audi
turium of the Packard library, delivered
tie first of a series Of twelve lectures I'M
der the auspices of the summer school of
the university. The other eleven lectures
VIII be delivered at 4:SO o'clock each after
noon at the university. The summer
school has more than 800 pupils enrolled.
ana mas representatives from Japan, Mex
leo and Canada.
DIR. Suzzallo is believer in the educa-
uon that educates, the education that in
SUNS tne idea as well as teaching the
In his lecture last evening Dr. Suzzallo
made apt comparison between the social
order that is brought about by force and
coercion and that which is brought about
oy individual and communal harmony OF
effort toward the same goal.
me speaker traced the various steps
that have been taken toward the higher
plane and described the influence of edu-
cation on the progress during the last
, century He briefly referred TO the es-
adjustment of the first public schools and
compared the institution of the early days
IN Massachusetts with the system that
prevails now
Marvel at Order.
when we reflect" said Dr. Suzzallo
in substance, upon the obstacles that
must have been overcome before we
reached this stage, we do not marvel
longer at the statements in the daily press
mat tell of crime and crimnolOgy, but
We marvel at the order which there is
Is IL not astonishing that immense
crowds of people having the same goal
III desire, crossing a street should do so
IN an orderly manner Is IL not remark
able that society has placed such control
over itself?"
Continuing in discussion of the fact that
everything moves smoothly when there
nfunu~ "a ,. 4
We do not know that we have a stomach
until il pains US. OF a head until we have
the headache. So il is with the social or
ganism. So long as all is orderly there is
no strife. but a misadjustment in the So
! cial relationship is like a misadjustment
of the bodily organs, the stomach OF the
head"
More Than Law.
Addressing himself to another phase of
the topic under discussion, DR.. SuZZallo
said: Society is more than law. more
than statute, more than code. Half of the
laws which govern us are written; the
other half are not; The clothes we wear
are not prescribed by statute, nor is il
specified by law that We shall use knives
and forks. Society is controlled by human
usage. custom and tradition.
If two men want two different things
there is peace. for each becomes the pos
SCISSOR of that thing which he desires and
there Is consequently no cause for con-
flict- But if two men want the same
just the same, but il will be the peace
that follows the beating of the weaker
into submission by the stronger. This is
not social order.
Social order may be illustrated by the
law that governs children at play when
they say Finder keeper; loser weeper.'
The same is true when a mining property
Is properly located. and the law and reg
ulatiOns are observed. It is true, too, OF
,--he recognized right of the road, the turn
ing 10 the right in this country and TO the
left in England and Canada.
There is social order because you are
the inheritor of the codes. the beneficiary
of the struggles of the past.
Means of Control.
There are two classes of social con-
atrol. One is the war club, the worst
means; the other is the free and liberal
education. The war club is control from
the outside, external. coercion, control
imposed by others Ii is the control
brought about by physical violence, the
army and the navy.
AT the opposite pole we have. not the
coercion of the army, but the coercion of
the idea. the spirit in the bosom of men.
This is freedom.
Perhaps no more apt Illustration can be
readily given than that which is afforded
by Russia and the United States Terse-
IL stated. Russia represents the brute
force. the control by coercion. and the
United States social control by educa-
social control and order may be
brought about in two ways One is by
education. II is very expensive. but in the
long run il IS by far the most economical
Coercion lasts only while you are there,
but education lasts for all time
Some Of the Advances.
DR.. SuZzallO referred TO the advances
made in the means Of education. He said
that. with jefferson, he believed that
every Individual is entitled to an educa-
v on from the bottom 20 the top. He said
that many there are who, for one reason
or another. are deprived of educational
advantages in their youth. For these the
evening school has been established. For
the blind and The deaf methods OF educa-
ton have been invented. For the feeble
minded there are methods of imparting
m eight of knowledge. So. too. modern
methods have taken account of the bril-