The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-10
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EDUCATORS PROTEST.

INatlOnal educational conventions tC
bring education more toward lines prac.
tically beneficial TO the masses of pu
pills than were the old lines. 1t is
known to all of the teachers who have
thought about the subject. that the old
style methods of education have clung
too much TO the medieval idea of
training alone for higher education
that is TO say. for entrance TO col
leges and universities. Naturally. in the
origin of educational systems, that was
the great desideratum, The pupil was
prepared for college, or for the uni
versity ms the case might be- Educa.
ton meant training young man to
/ be n minister lawyer, clerk, diplo.
mat or employee of the public service.
and the masses of the youth were left
iliterate
But when it came TO the educational
system of this country. where the mass
es, all the children, go to school, it
became manifest after awhile TO discern
ing persons (although the old.fashloned
curriculum is still generally persisted
in). that all the people could not be
professional men, diplomats, merchants,
and clerks. The masses of the peo.
pie would still have to labor and still
have to do manual work, and they were
not being fitted for it in the schools,
nor were the children being so trained
in the schools that their studies would
be of the best help TO them when they
went out into the world to make their
way. 1t was soon manifest that those
who proceeded along in the search Of
education beyond the grade schools
were comparatively few, and that those
who went beyond the high schools and
into the colleges and universities were
still fewer-wcre. in fact, Il nero frac-
tion of the great roster that had be-
gun in the grades.
1t was manifest then that the uti-
mate aim can not be the same in the
general education of all as it is when
but few were educated, and these
highly; that something should be done,
some change must be made that will
bring the school training into accord
with actual life, and connect the school
or she is about to engage upon
leaving school, other than those in the
professions. And so in the minds
of independent thinkers among the
teachers, there was a demand to bring
the school instruction into the service
daily, practical life.
At the session of the National Edu-
cational association, which ended IN
Boston on Friday, there were more
earnest and more genuine indications
of revolt against the old routine than
ever before. Mr. McAudrew. princi.
pal of a great high school in New York,
protested altogether against the pres
ent high school curriculum. Other
teachers Joined with him in the de-
mapd for the establishment of more
practical courses in high and secondary
instruction in the grades. One of the
speakers declared that the agricultural
colleges were so theoretical that they
would not treat of the common service
of the farm. This latter is a special
branch of the educational system, and
one that has been very difficult to
handle in the way of bringing it down
10 practical duty and actual service.
The tendency of agricultural colleges
has constantly been to ape the uni
versi5ies, and TO put into the shade
as much as possible the working farm
IA fa
selves have too often been Impoverished
in behalf of the lighter or possibly
"bigher' branches Of the farm course
instruction. Here, as in the schools
in general, the tendency has been to-
wards theory and speculation rather
than towards actual, practical help in
the working life Of the farm The
Tribune has taken occasion in the past
to devote much time TO this particular
feature of our own agricultural col
lege, and, we are glad TO believe, with
beneficial results.
There is no mistake about it, the
schools of the country must enter upon
new life and take on new phases.
The old idea that schools are simply
for the training of pupils to enter col
icgcs and universities must absolutely
be given up as so impractical so i'll
fitting to the masses of the pupils, that
1t is outgrown, unserviceable. The
schools must come TO be schools of the
masses and not of the classes, and
the masses must mould the school in
struction to suit their own uses and
needs. Those teachers who come out
for this change III the school service,
will inevitably grow larger and larger
in numbers, examples will be set on
the new forms and On new lines, aud
after awhile we shall have all the pco-
pie and all the schools inoculated with
the new idea, doing every day, practi-
cal work, and thoroughly contented
Herewith.
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