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Show 42 . John R. Park, Karl G. Maeser, and William M. But John R. Park was born, bred and edu Stewart. And Karl G. Maeser ws born, cated in the East. brought up and educated in Germany. William M. Stewart, born in Utah, bred in Utah and educated in Utah, in his grasp of the meaning of education, in his knowledge of the means and methods by which each individual in the state may have the best education possible for him; in his insistence that social service as an ideal in education is not incompatible with individual pre-eminence, in his faith in the efficiency of the public school system, in the inspiration of his example as a teacher, for he spoke as one whose lips had been touched by the live coal in the ha.nd of Isaiah's seraph and whose tongue was a sort of Ithuriel's pear; in the influence he has exerted, and still exerts by proxy, over teachers who never knew his per in these and other vital things he sonality, is the greatest educator Utah has yet produced.' ----J. E. McKnight •••• . He thought clearly and sharply and and felt deeply and believed strongly but he was at the same time one of the broadest, most liberal minded, most charitable men I ever We liked one another all the better when met. ••••• earmestly; we disagreed.J.. John M. Tyler 9f Amherst, Massachusetts ----Dr. Professor Levi Edgar Young sai of him: As Utah had great educators in her early days, so has she today, and Doctor William M. stewart stood out among them all as a man who had but one great ideal and that was to have education expressed in useful daily action for the etterment of the individual and hnmanlty.8 Stewart, Miss Charlotte; "Files". lac. c I t. l. Stewart, Miss Charlotte, M. Stewart", Improvement Era "William Levi Edgar, aYoung, Vol. 16, No. 11, (September 19l3) p. 1139. , |
