The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-31
TRUSTEES AND TEACHERS
Their Relations to the Public Theme
of Dr. Browns Address.

In his second address before the
state teachers Friday morning United
States Commissioner Elmer f. Brown
discussed the relations of trustees ia
teachers and to the public. He placed
the needs of the school under four
heads as follows: Better attendance
better schoolhouses, trained teachers
and more competent supervisors,
Inc frst of these needs; better at.
tendance, is being secured, DR. Brown
SAID, through the united effort being
made In the prevention Of child labor
and the furtherance of the mpulsory
attendance laws
The second need. good schoolhouses
| ne SAID, is also being given more atten-
tlon than ever before. School boards
| ana trustees are taking pains to have
all new schoolhouses comply with re-
qulrements which assure commodious
rooms, good ventilation, sanitary condi.
tlonS and convenient arrangements Sew
enty million dollars, Mr.. Brown said, is
being expended annually in the United
states for the erection of school build,
lngs, and he feels that the money is
being carefully expended TO the best ad,
vantage of school children.
The teaching corps is being strength,
ened all the time, DR.. Brown said, by
the encouragement which is given young
teachers in their efforts to study in the
mgher schools TO perfect themselves in
special lines, and by subjectinC appli-
cants to more rigorous examinations be-
fore they are admitted to the ranks of
teachers
Better supervision is the rule, too,
Tor the same reason, according to DR..
Brown, for the young men teachers are
being urged to broaden their mentalities
In higher schools and they are being ad-
vanced from the ranks as occasion war
rants, and are therefore well euuipped
to take up the higher work of super
vision.
Should Act as Buffer,
"The school trustees.'' said DR..
B'own, ''should act as buffer between
the public and the teachers in the school
board s employ. 1t is often the case
that the public can tell the teachers
many things that they do not know, and
1T would be to the advantage of the
teachers to know them. The school su.
perintendent should be considered much
in the same light, too. Ii is therefore
OF the utmost Importance that the school
superintendent should be a man we'll
equipped as mediator between the
school patrons and the teachers. The
superintendent should be a man in whom
the teachers can have the greatest con-
hdence, and as the Superintendent
usually is selected by the school trus-
tees, the teachers are at once given
confidence in the trustees if the super.
intendent is all that he should be.
1t is rather a peculiar fact that in
most lines OF business and science the
expert who is to have charge OF some big
work is chosen by those who are not ex-
perts. The man who wants bridge built
secures the services OF an engineer 10 do
the work for him, The engineer goes on |
with the task and the promoter of the
enterprise has little more 10 do with it,
DR.. Brown described briefly the work |
OF the United States bureau Of education |
as being branch of the service the pur- |
pose or which Is to gather information |
which might be OF interest to educators |
and OF distributing the knowledge so |
gained throughout the country
THE purpose OF The bureau" said Dr. |
Brown, rs to give you and other educa-
tors the advantages being attained by the |
careful study Of the work by government