University of Central Oklahoma - Bronze Book Yearbook (Edmond, OK)

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r BRONZE DSEQK 1 C Hje Jfuture Appreciating fully the demand being made by the public for profes- sionally trained teachers, for those who have been trained extensively in the science of teaching, the State Board of Education at its meeting December 30, 1919, added two years of college work to the present course. This made her Normal Schools four-year colleges, with the privilege of granting regular college degrees. Following is the resolution adopted by the board: First: The course of study for the Normal Schools of Okla- homa shall be raised to meet the requirements of a four-year col- lege course. Second: That authority be given through the State Board ol Education to the Oklahoma Normal Schools to grant the aca- demic and professional degrees, usually and customarily granted to the graduates of institutions of college rank. Hereafter Central will be a state Teachers ' College. The course offered will meet all conditions necessan from kindergarten to college, inclusive, and the degrees of B. S. and 13. A. will be granted to her graduates. The time has come to meet the demands of our people for men and women to fill positions in every department from superintendences to kinder- garten with those who have been trained for this particular profession. It is apparent that teachers should be especially trained foi leaching just as members of the other professions, as doctors and lawyers, are trained foi their work. A man would not go to a university and take an A. B. or A. M. degree and then attempt to begin the practice of medicine or law without training in his special profession and so it should be with teachers. L Fifteen 1920 c J

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li is altogether fitting that teachers who complete the course in a Teach- ers ' College should be granted license to teach. All teachers should make an earnest effort to secure the permanent license. It does not promote the best interest or the profession for teachers to teach on first, second or third grade certificates and on five and ten-year state certificates and continue to have these renewed any more than it would promote the best interest of the pro- fession of medicine or law to have the members of these professions granted licenses on this minimum training to practice their profession. Surely no pro- fession is more important than that which cuts and carves and moulds in the imponderable material of mind and soul. Central State Normal is situated near the geographical center of the state, easily accessible from every direction, has splendid water, superior moral advantages, a larger student body than any other Normal School in the state, a most enthusiastic Alumni and a faculty of college bred men and women, thoroughly devoted to the cause of education. With her wide scope of influ- ence and her recently enlarged curriculum, Central State Normal expects to render a distinct service to the great teaching profession of the State of Okla- homa. L Si vi n tei n . 1920 J