Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-29
on "The Kindergarten Proper Con-
nection Between Home and School"
EVENING SESSION.

uH 1no hlnucfHHrten PROPER CoH-
nection Between Home and School"
EVENING SESSION.
Dr. Thomas NJ. Ballet. dean OF the
school of pedagogy OF the New York
university, delivered q most interesting
and timely address before the session
OF the Utah Teachers association in
the assembly hall last evening. DR..
Ballet maintained that the enforce
ment of the criminal law of the coun-
try was disgrace. and this. In
large measure. is responsible for the
immortality existing among children.
After the session was called to order
by President briggs, Rev w. M.
Paden, pastor of the First PRESBYTERIAN
church, offered PRAYER. The first speak
er of the evening was Miss
Ada Van Stone Harris. as
sistant superintendent OF the
schools of Rochester, New York. Her
subject was THE need of special
classes in Elementary education" Miss
Harris said that for economic reasons.
as we'll as for The sake OF fairness to
normal and abnormal children alike.
special classes should be formed for
the backward and inefficient in order
that they might be segregated from
the normal pupils.
At the conclusion of Miss Harris
lecture. VIII Sibley sang tenor solo.
which was much appreciated. Al the
close of the session the Orpheus CLUB
sang a selection.
DIR. BALLIETS ADDRESS.
DR.. Ballet followed the musical
number by Mr.. Sibley. His address
was in part as follows:
IL Invite you,' said he. Ito con-
slider with me In an informal way this
great problem This great problem Is
often called the school problem.
When vice increases the school is al
ways blamed. The public holds US re-
sponsible for the moral training OF
the child, The community owes II 10
Itself and the school to control the
saloon and the degrading picture
show. We need a stronger enforcement
of the criminal law today. Crime is IN
creasing at discouraging rate.
There is need of higher ethics In
the legal profession. The legal pro-
fession must help us to clear out
things Public sentiment should act
as a restraining power to these vices.
The main force in the development or
conscience is public sentiment Thus
we can sec what a force public Senu-
ment is in the suppression of vice.
1--WE should develop moral senti-
ment in our schools. One of the high
est ideals OF the teacher should be to
develop a good atmosphere ana en-
vironment In our schools.
Hotels and boarding houses are
very bad places to bring up children.
You cannot associate the thought or
the home with the fiat or the tenement
house. Happy childhood is necessary
for most people to have happy old age:
You can sing Home. Sweet Home
but you cannot sing Flat, Sweet Flat
"If we teach history as 1t should be
taught if We teach literature as IT
should be taught, they Will have pro-
found moral effect. These subjects
must be taught in a way to appeal to
the Imagination.
You must teach ethics at the proper
time, which 1 think is the high
school and in the proper way. IL thls
problem Is to be solved. do not mean
The old sort of ethics, but what 1
mean is a plain discussion of why one
should tell the truth, why 1t is the
right thing to do to tell the truth.
industrial education Is essential to
useful citizenship. We should study
economics and sociology. 1 should say,
then, as a means of bringing about a
solution of this problem, every stu
dent should be compelled to study
nolitical economy-Sociology.
schools should bring a development
of love faith and hope, and these
things are important parts OF rellglon.
The schools in this sense should teach
religion. The teaching of theology Is
not religion. When you come TO the
teaching of this religion, however,
doctrines should not be taken into the
schools.
i.RelIgion is n restraining force-a
constraininc force-restraining man
from doing wrong and constraining MN
to do right. and teachers are examples
for their students. and so by the pupils
imitation q teacher acquires most
powerful influence over her charges.