--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Smith, George Albert collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 12 published: 1908-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Smith, George Albert, "The Church and the School," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 12 (October 1908): 940.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11012unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera11012unse start_page: 940 end_page: 940 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11012unse publication_year: 1908 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Church and the School 940 IMPR 0 VEMENT ERA . It was the life of Socrates and the practical side of his teachings that appealed most to Xenophon. Plato, on the other hand, was the greatest of the speculative philosophers, and we look to him for an exposition of the philosophical teachings and method of Socrates. The selections that will appear in the next number are from Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates. Forest Dale, Utah. THE CHURCH AND THE SCHOOL. The school and the house of worship, those effective instruments of civilization and culture— spring up like magic wherever the Latter-day Saints plant their colonies. The illustration shows the new Latter-day Saints meeting house at Photo by George Albert Smith. Meetinghouse at Kirtland, New Mexico. Kirtland, New Mexico. The brick were laid by two young men about sixteen years of age, and the expenses for material, as is usual with this people, were mostly donated by the local members of the Church. The Church as a whole has spent many thousands of dollars daring late years in the building of places of worship, in the missions of the world and at home.