Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-28
TEACHERS BEGIN
CONVENTION WORK
DR.. Henry Suzzalo the Principal
Speaker in Two Notable
Addresses.
} PROGRAM FOR TOMORROW
Departmental Sessions to he Held at
High School beginning ut 10 n. NJ
Afternoon in Assembly Hall.

Two addresses by Dr. Suzzalo marked
the afternoon and evening sessions OF
the opening day of the State Teachers
convention in the Assembly hall Mon
day. DR.. Suzzalo expressed his pleas
ure In addressing an audience in Salt
Lake City once more and said that
while the old warfare is passing u new
warfare has begun. THE new war
fare said DR., Suzzclo, involves tho
intimate relationship OF education with
liberty-a conflict between cultural and
industrial education. While men are
contending for more industrial instruc,
Mion In the modern schools and less of
ehat which Is for the childs benefit.
this Industrial system means an incom-
,petcnt democracy 1t means the keep
ing of the working class poor and add
;ing to the riches of those already ricn.
The capital of the country Is working
Tor more Industrial education, In the
interest of the factories which are the
source of wealth
What we need" said Dr. Suzzalo
lis not to take partizan View OF the
matter. but to consider 1t from all Its
sides. Democracy must be competent
to compete In the market place OF the
world No man is educated for the
democracy of life unless he has two
Quotations. an education for culture
and an education for a vocation An
education for culture and an education
for some specialized line of work are
not in conflict in reality. and there is
no reason why they should be- Every
American citizen should be trained IN
Two lines of education-one for common
culture and the other for somo special
line of work
EDUCATION FOR VOCATION.
Education for vocation is defective
in that the whole stress Is laid on the
Industrial development. We must look
TO the old training In the PROFESSIONS
lawyers. doctors. and so on. A true
vocation education must include that
which Is professional and agricultural.
IAN education for culture. on the 9TH
or hand. Is simply an education for
manhood. No man is cultured unless
he senses a. vital social kindred with
his fellow man. The old conception of
culture was that it was useless except
1n the ballroom or In society Teach
eis must attempt to defeat the concep-
lion that a man cannot be cultured ond
work with his hands, for mans work
requires culture. The professional man
ehould be trained In culture In order to
safeguard his Workmanship. and SO
more culture is really needed In the
schools instead OF less of It, Culture
Is necessary for tho preservation of
democracy, for which the civilized world
has always strlven. Cultural education
is really a supplement to industrial
education
At the conclusion of DR. Suzzalo's ad-
dress musical selection was rendered
BY Mrs, Wetzcll's quartet
During tho afternoon the following
committees were named by President
briggs:
Constitution and by-iaws-w. s. Raw
l.ngs. ]. NJ Mills, George Thomas.
Enrollment-Evelyn Reilly, Wilta
Spurgeon and Mrs. Short.
Rcsolutions-J. o. Cross, ]. II. Paul
md N. K Nelson.
Auditing-A- C. Nelson, D. II. Rob
1nson and G. N. Child.
These committees Will make their re-
rorts on the last day of the convention,
Wednesday,.
EVENING SESSION.
The assembly hall was again crowd
ed In the evening. when DR.. Suzzalo
made a powerful talk on Tho Teach
ing Life" DR.. Ballet and Miss Har-
ris had arrived in tho city during the
afternoon. and were present at the
evening session Tho Imperial quartet
rondoreu inc selecuon, Dreaming
There" Dr. Suzzalo said in part;
1T is to be noted first of all that our
lile is a professional life. Teaching
Is today an equal profession to that
OF law or medicine. You have heard 1t
declared the teacher is the servant OF
tho public. think the misunderstand-
Ing of teaching as a profession has
come largely from the fact that teach
ers have been paid by salary. When
You are told that a teacher iB simply
a servant of the state, ask you TO be
suspicious OF that definition.
PUEBLO OBLIGATIONS.
we have certain obligations to the
public. We must look upon teaching
aa a social service. but on the other
hand VIC must see 1t from the stand
point of leading others. Professional