The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-12

him for college life. the grade teach
ers OF the land are Thanked with iron
Glad outlines. from the precise outlines
Of which deviation Is little short of a
breach OF the terms Of employment.
The while the rigid exactions fall on
the tender, struggling pupil as a bur
deL which I am Outlines led to think
IS too weighty for his young shoulders.
Lack Training In Youth.
III our zeal TO enlarge the educa-
tional field for all alike. we are dis
posed 10 make Individual capacities
bend and reach arbitrary and fixed
standards While am firm believer
In the systematizing Of school work 1
want you TO distinctly understand that
when system tends to force individ-
ualtty In common mould and hold ~
there regardless OF circumstances or
consequences, 1 am against that sys-
tenn.
AS at present constituted. I believe
that our educational system makes an
unfair distribution Of responsibility as
between grade and high school in
structors and university and college
professors. One OF the irreconcilable
features Of modern education is the
manner OF loading the student as he
acquires his education There Is a
disposition displayed toward students OF
the higher Institutions which permit
or so much Of sports. athletics and the
NnNNfChtn GlkrlhN OF HO-calied college
spirit, while the growing child is held
In the school room every DAY Of the
school year and in order TO keep pace
with his class must devote afternoons
and evenings to health shattcrinE con-
unement and study. and all because the
child can be forced and crowded i'm his
mental development Am I not right
when / say that the young men and the
young women are physically and men,
tally better able 20 carry the load OF
OverwOrk than the child and the high
school STUDENT
In spite OF my high regard for edu-
cation, I'm all that the term Implies. I
am free TO say that the roses in the
checks. with the flush OF robust health.
are worth more TO the human race
and the generations TO come than phvsi-
cally wrecked mathematical or literary
prodiRies.
making OF this condition is not yours
and while you may regard Il as the
business OF parents to exercise judg-
ment as TO the capacity Of the child.
to you.
Must Use Common Sense.
and here is the school teachers
problem Here IL IS that good. whole
some common sense must be made man
iiest Here IL Is that the peculiar cir
must be considered as controlling
factor In your attitude toward the pupil.
~ rs useless for me to attempt a mic
ture of the types that are met by the
school teacher-the shy and the bold.
the puny and the robust. the bright
and the DUH, the trusting and the sus-
ptctous-you have met an Of them. As
they gather at your feet you only
Know that the inherent desire FOR
knowledge is before you or environ
ment, OF the patrimonies OF ancestry.
OF childish hopes and ambitions. you
know nothing. But these things and
conditions forthwith become your study.
and until you ferret out by painstaiing
Ia Dor. by patience and love. the indi-
vidual traits and facts REGARDING each
chiid. and can measure accurately the
capaclties OF every pupil. you cannot
successfully impart knowledge.
Parents Are Not the same.
There is one other element OF re-
spOnsibility. that enters so fully into
the vocation Of teaching that 7 cannot
refrain making mention OF &c at this
time refer to the obligation OF
proper personal conduct
Parents are as soliCitiOus for the
welfare or their children today as they
were IN days gone by. And they place
their children in the schools because OF
the strong impulses or natural affection
and not because OF legal obligation. I
am Old-fashioned enough in my views
on education 20 regard the adaEe that
example Is better than precept' as a
motto for those engaged in school
work.
Coming to your feet in childish in
uocence and shyness, you win. through
kind persuasion, the confidence Of the
little ones; and then under your direC-
ton and skill begins that gradual un-
folding or life's wonders, through the
process or education. The child revp1s
In the light OF knowledge you spread
bout him. delights IN the truths YOU
bring TO him. and the while you his
teacher. are being elevated to q first
consideration. and because OF the glory
OF 70 all. you presently become the
childish Ideal. Around you IS thrown
the trusting confidence OF as pure. un-
selfish approval as life can bestow-
the love and admiration Of children.
and the firm dependence and respect OF
boys and girls upon you as worthy aud
noble.
God forbid that any one OF YOU shall
ever do aught TO shake the confidence
or shatter the faith or a boy or girl
who has given you his or her love and
admiration.
From the very nature OF your call
ing. YOU are fin a position 90 exercise n
wonderful influence for good among the
boys and girls who are growing to
manhood and womanhood. Make II
your business TO upiift morally and
physically as well as mentally and you