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Show 27 Other lesser known educators to from the Midwest and East shape the University of Utah Normal Stewart, always sive lines. School associate of Francis Parker and John Dewey, teachers who had either trained not Although probably Illinois. John t-Jelch, Katherine Dopp nevertheless , or Anna 25 In 1911 surrounded himself with taught with Parker and Dewey in Mormons, George Thorne Thompsen, Youngberg, and 1ary Carter ti1ay to the Dr. A. C. State Normal also visited the State Normal and observer of what William Stewart His comments about Stewart to passing interest. Stewart-run Normal to out-of-school enough to School: activities was Salt Lake a Winship form the basis of 25Thouqh School.26 VJinship, editor of the pres t i qt ous Journal School, not dispenser of progressive educational thought, but than close a greatly influenced SteHart and importantly conveyed the Parker-Dewey progressive spirit of Education, along highly progres- and for many years disciple a helped was more attempting to a as a reporter achieve there. are of more lyrical in his praise for the wholly unusual. more as City gathering liThe linking of the school is much so I to real life and have taken notes important editorials than from any Parker apparently never visited the State Normal School, Stewart knew the Colonel IS educational philosophy--especially the theory of concentration--and as early See "Normal Department ," the curriculum. Chronicle, 19 November 1895, p. 86. as 1894 introduced it into University of Utah 26See respecti vely, liThe Records of Our Newer Instructors, Universit of Utah Chronicle, 1 October 1901, p. 8; 1I-JhoIS vJho in The Tablet," The Tablet 1 October 1906):27; Universitv of Utah Chronicle, 27 October 1898, p. 27; "Home Happenings," University of Utah Chronicle, 2 November 1898, p. 48; 1ary C. May, Autobiography, Marle Fox Felt Papers, Special Collections, University of Utah Library, Salt Lake City, Utah II |
