---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Frost, Grace Ingles
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 20
number: 6
published: 1917-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "The Wraith: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 6 (April 1917): 522.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2006unse
  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: improvementera2006unse
start_page: 522
end_page: 522
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2006unse
  publication_year: 1917
  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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Wraith: A Poem

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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