The Wraith: A Poem

Moral Education of the Adolescent By Newel K. Young, Principal North Sanpete Stake Theological Seminary

V—Indirect or Direct Method So far as this moral education problem is concerned there — are two schools among our educators the supporters of the indirect method and those of direct method. The first believe that there is no necessity for regular moral instruction. The only moral teaching they would give is incidental instructions as special occasion arises. They claim that morality is not based on knowledge, but on habits. These teachers feel that if we have our pupils "work true to the line every stroke," forming habits of promptness, regularity, neatness, honesty, industry, etc., that the school will provide the moral culture needed.

North Sanpete Theological Seminary and a few of its 335 students.

Dr. John Dewey of Columbia University, and Prof. Palmer of this of Harvard are two of the most pronounced advocates Dewey great stress upon the danger of our method Dr. lays the schools divorcing action from knowledge; he also decries tendency to emphasize artificial school rules and regulations rather than the fundamental virtues of boyhood and girlhood in

ihe social life of the world. He claims that there may be and