The Training School Quarterly October November December 1919 Volume 7

Author : East Carolina Teachers College
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364025567
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Training School Quarterly, Vol. 7 written by East Carolina Teachers College and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Training School Quarterly, Vol. 7: October, November, December, 1919 I have been requested to write an article for the quarterly on a subject that will Of necessity call for so many things from the essence of my own life that I feel that I cannot comply with the request. I am will ing, however, to give a few of the fundamental principles upon which the Officers and teachers have stood for the past ten years. The results show that they have stood upon a secure foundation. First, may I say that from the very beginning I have had a clear conception of the purpose of this school, and with all of the tenacity of my nature I have held to this purpose and have refused at all times to be pulled away by the tempter when he came with bright promises of reward if I would give up the purpose or even deviate slightly from the course planned. SO you see our purpose, our aim, has not been chang ing. Let me say also that the spirit of the Board of Trustees has been all any one could ask. They have given their thought and energy to the material side and have left the professional side to the teachers and officers. Our trustees have shown that they have a correct idea of the powers and duties of school trustees. If their example were followed by all boards Of trustees we would have better schools and fewer wrangles. In building up a new school or managing an established institution there are a few great principles that should be kept in mind constantly. One of these is that the theories of education are not usable. They are founded upon conditions that exist only in the minds of men. Human society is not logical. It is composed of all types and its members are constantly changing. But there is running through human society a desire for better things. People are willing to have things that elevate done for them or done to them. They will accept any good thing if it will function. But a good thing will not work unless it touches human life as it is found in the every-day man. It has been necessary, there fore, for us to abandon accepted educational theories and study North Carolina home-life conditions. When we saw conditions as they existed in our State then we saw our problem, namely: To prepare the young women who come to us out of those conditions to go back to our people as teachers, take hold of existing conditions, and lead our people forward to something better. Each teacher must be an instructor of children and a leader of people. If the former is well done the latter is easily Obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.