The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-28
MODERN SYSTEM
Of EDUCATION
Or. ]. NJ. Tyler of Amherst Col,
Iege Addresses Teachers at
the Tabernacle.
GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
Noted Educator Says There Is Too
Much Hurry and That Nature
Should Be Considered More.

Declaring that the modern system Of
education is operated too much on the
theory that the quickest way 90 make
a frog OF a tadDolo is TO cut the lat
ter's tail Off Dr. y. NJ Tyler Of Am
hcret college. Amherst. Mass. at the
night session OF the Utah Teachers as
ISOLATION in the Tabernacle. last night
dealt a blow at the examining method
or removing the tails Of ignorance from
students and converting them into fun
Dr TYLER was tho principal speaker
NJ the night session. and I'm the course
Of his address on Growth and EduCa-
ton" he remarked.
"Gt seems to me that this whole cdu-
cational system of ours is Ike cutting
tails off Of tadDOles. We want TO get
there too quick. Lot nature take her
stimulant 7 should like 60 see baby
left alone some time for twenty min
utes. do not expect this viii ever
happen. but ] think the baby would get
along an right"
In opening hts address. DR.. Tyler
spoke Of the great responsibility as
sumcd by a teacher and Of the right
the instructor has 90 be proud Of his
calling His address I'm part was as
follows:
Future Generations.
eve are making laws and civiliza-
/ ton FOR the year 1850. The future well
fare OF the nation rests in our hands
and depends on the training we give
/ 20 tho child OF today. We should be exc
are making the statesmen for the COM
ing generations. and this is something
that no one else can do.
Statesmen do not come from fertile
soil. They usually come from the bar
rem regions. Wealth does not produce
/ them. Doctors can make them health
Ter but they cannot impart the quail
tiles or craftsmanship. lawyer. I'm an
their wisdom. are not responsible for
them. Proper and learned teaching
alone IS what gives the boy Of today
the training and ability to lead the
masses OF tomorrow. Teachers are
more important than all the doctors
and lawyers and legislators and mcr-
Misery and want go STALKING
/ through the educational streets OF Utah
and Massachusetts. The children need
| all tho instruction they can get. There
[ is little danger OF US giving them too
much. Tho men and women who are
going to rule the country i'm the next
/ generation must be men and women OF
I action and ideals. OF cool heads ard
warm hearts-for out OF the heart and
not the head are the issues Of life
/ Whcn Buuyan wanted hero 60 XIII
] tho giant Despair, he took brave
heart and not swcllcd head. The chill
I cren must be taught faith i'm God. faith
| I'm the people. faith in the triumph Of
| right; they must have abiding hope
| boundless courage: they must have iron
/ Wills set on truth and Righteousness
I Perfect health must De theirs. Tor
l health Is the grandest and most mag
| nificcnt thing there is IN this wide
| world.
Laws Of Nature.
/ Health. halcncss and holiness near
I about the same thing. In the New Tcs-
/ lament. sane. sound and whole are used
| TO express the same meaning. I've
/ heard that there are some dyspcptiC
| saints. but don't believe So. A dyspep.
| tic isn't whole and. therefore. can't ID
| holy. He must have a healthy body
/ heart. mind and soul. without these
| comes degeneration. and sure death is
| not Tar behind. Without these. civil
| ization shall surely want.
/ we must go into partnership with
/ nature. for nature is working Tor tho
| human race. and the men OF tomorrow
III nature Is given her way-will Do
1 as FAR ahead OF us as the sages and
| prophets OF Rome were above their
/ lowly slaves.
| Nature puts n shell around an egg
| so that chicken will hatch without
| the Interference OF man. out OF an
I other species Of egg we expect a frop
| 70 hatch. but a tadnole comes with a
| long tail. and then gradually develops
/ into a frog once "a learned biologist
/ cut tho tail of a tadpOle and made a
| frog Of IL quickly. But nature needed
/ that tail IN order that the strength
! there could be drawn up into the body.