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Show 46 great problem of life is to learn how to live, education must be directed to the solution of More people live by means of that problem. agriculture than by any other vocation, hence this paramount activity of life must be included in school trainingJ Dean Milton Bennion commented upon 'Professor Stewart's Insight as and Foresight to the as Course of in .Study part follows: Twenty years art, music, nature study training. parts of the elementary school course of study were commonly called "fads". They were regarded as a means of wasting time and dissipating effort that should be given to real studies. In the midst of this denunciation on the part of teachers and the conservative public, Professor Btwart introduced and gave prominence to these sub-' jects in the newly established Training School. The opposition to the innovations in no wise discouraged him from introduoing, also, as fast as means would permit, domestic science, udomestic art and school gardening ago and manual as . • a direetor of eduoation is thoroughly the idea that education is a with impressed means ot progress, and that progres_s means orderly ohange tending toward social betterment. With these oonoeptions it is unthinkable to There regard the currioulum as a fixed thing. must also be an outflow or elimination of materia.l it is a puzzle to know what part of the old to leave behind ••••• . • •••• .. , Paul, J. H., "The 'Vork and the Man", Utah Educational 5--6, (January--February 19l4) Review, Vol. 7, Nos '. p. .: 24 |
