The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-10-20
SOUTHEASTERN !
IDAHO TEACH
ERS' INSTITUTE
It Il Estimated That SEQ Teachers
Are In Session At
This Institute,
WILL GO TO POCATELLO
FOR THEIR SESSION
NEXT YEAR.


at the Monday morning session. The
following is synopsis Of his address
Education is an important industry
to our country, large in the number
OF people employed and the amount
expended. The people have right to
know what should be expected from
this large expenditure. The aim OF
education is to fit haen better for the
work of life and the duties Of citizen
ship. TO secure this result the first
quality to be established is intelli-
gence the ability to know what is
true and to face it. A disagreeable
truth Is better than an agreeable un-
truth The second quality to be es-
tablished is obedience; an understan-
ding Of government and determine
tion to abide by its laws and institu-
tions In a democracy every person
has q responsibility toward his gov
ernment he cannot place ON the
shoulders Of others. There is too
much of carrying people to the pools
in autos. Education should establish
a respect for and desire to work.
Too many think education will afford
them a means to gain success. 1t
rather affords them means to serve
and work better. The purpose OF ed
ucation is to let a man find out the
best that is in him and fit him for
that work It should also teach him
the necessity of cooperation with
othersr. He can do little by himself:
team work is required.
DR.. Ira Howerth next spoke on the
"Social Heritage and Education" The
President of Columbia University mas
said that education is the transmits
sion of the social heritage to the
children. We have nothing to do with
biological heritage, but rather with
that heritage of tradition, custom,
modes of thought etc, into which each
child is born. 1t obtains measure OF
it in the home, but it is in the school
where it should receive the largest
and most valuable portion OF 1t. All
nations and races have their own So
citl .heritages, but we do not need
to traverse these. National sentiment
is necessary for national unity ana
DEVELOPMENT, but we should not neg
lect to obtain the best OF the heritage
of others in science, art and lltera-
ture. What is best to select in sci
ence should be left to scientists not
religionists. Bryan and the Kentucky
legislature would shut the study Of
evolution from theschool and in doing
so they are stepping outside thel
legitimate functions. In art 1t Is
little more difficult to say what thai
heritage shall be, but there is gen
ehal agreement among the educated
and it can be drawn from all ma
tions. In literature there is wide
field from the Bible to Shakespear
WHY should any child be deprivedo
of reading the Bible as wonderful
literary production We must edu
cate and improve the individual 81
that he will not be carrying lot o
debris, but only such a heritage II
will develop lofty ideals and the bes
citizenship.
DIR. Smith took as his subject th'
Individual in Education. Citizenship
the goal to be secured by right ed
ucation. Growth or development, no
prepartion is the main object of edu
cation and to secure this human sym
pathy and understanding of the chill
is essential to good teaching. TIL
course of study should be adapted u
each child; neither uniformity no
conformity should be aimed at, bu
rather the individuality of the child
To obtain this the taste of the chill
should be considered, and the wor
should also be guaged according t
his capacity. We should measure tn
ability of performance.
DIR. Smith spoke Tuesday on 9TH
Responsibility of the Community TO
its Youth" The community shout
share the responsibility of education
(COntinupd on napo oivhtA