Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-26
Tl,E HEAD AND TIE HAND.

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a leading feature of the proceedings
OF the Utah Teachers association,
| which convenes in this city tomorrow
| will undoubtedly be the relation of
| mammal training, nature study, anu
domestic science to the public schools.
The head and the hand-how to CO.
| ordinate their activities, that is the
question now engaging chief attention
among educators. The Report OF the
| National Educational Committee on
| the Place Of Industries in Public Edu-
| cation, dated July. 1910, holds that the
aim OF modern education should be, IL
tho aim be anything more than the
production or nicely articulated In
dustriul system. to produce meni not
machines The school, according to
amy broad and reasonable understand
ing of its social function. should send
from It's doors healthy, efficient. ana
| wel-trlined producers who possess
characteristics which Will enable them
to live as well as TO make a living.
Superintendent Brumbaugh IN an
address on Industrial Education and
National Progress. declared that all
forms of Industrial and manual edu-
cation IN the elementary schools must
point. net to gainfnl occupations, but
to wider participation In the fcclings'
thoughts. ana deeds OF men,
Thus. to show their effect, according
to l-ost, in Dayton. Ohio, where
school gardens have been conducted
for slx or scvcn years, boys taking
gardening make 30 per cent more rapid
progress In other studies than those
without gardens. Mr.. Crosby of the
| office of Experiment Station ut wash
| ington says. that experience mas
| shown that dcvoting four or five hours
| n week, or even. two hours day, to
] nature study and gardening, II proper
~ conducted, enables the pupils to ac-
compish more in the remaining tlme
than they formerly accomplished In the
whole time spent in school.
uhesc values of the industrial sub
i.cts have been demonstrated. Thcy
have stood the test Of experience: IL Is
| already many years since some or the
| other nations introduced them. Thus
schleswig- Holstein introduced school
gardens and elementary agriculture III
| 1914. Prussia In 1919, Austria ana S"e-
| dan introduced school gardens IN 1909
| There are now 10000 school gardens III
Austria Hungary. Sweden requires that
Eat every school a garden OF from ~ 10
| 50 square rods must be laid out. IN
1874 there were 1870 fourshing school
gardens in that kingdom. The rcputa-
| lion of sweden in sloyd is so we'll known
+, IA tn need no mention. France intro
| duced the work in 1850 Now there are
| more than 100 normal schools there pre-
poriug tenchers for elementary agricul-
turc. and there are $4,000 rural schools
equipped with school gardens. Many
other European nations have intro
luced these studies and made them OBJ
lgatory in the schools. Figures given
! above in relation to Denmark and Ger
many SHOW the possibilities developed
by these studies.
In the United states II start has more
recently been made. The middle west
ana northwest We're first in the field,
Eleven states make agricultural in
structIcn obligatory in rural schools.
FIFTY no,u.u! sclools now prepare teach
crs for agticriure Tho agricultural
colleges liaya been longer in the field
Their work is more advanced and more
technical. Its value to our own state
is SO Well known as to need no comment
here
Manual training has bcnu in our