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

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{ SMM Pox», “The Bronze Book +1928 JOHN GORDON MITCHELL “‘Now I mean by education that training which is given by suitable habits to the first instincts of virtue in children ;—when pleasure, and friend- ship, and pain, and hatred are rightly implanted in souls not yet capable of understanding ‘he nature of them, and who find them, after they have attained reason, to be in harmony with her. This harmony of the soul, taken as a whole, is virtue; but the particular training in respect of pleasure and pain, which leads you always to hate what you ought to hate, and love what you ought to love from the beginning of hfe to the end, may be separated off; and, in my view will be rightly called education.’’—Plato. Y, John Gordon Mitchell was born in Tennessee, September 14, 1878. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Tennessee and at- tended George Peabody College for Teachers. He received his Master’s de- gree from the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Mitchell has been engaged in educational work in Oklahoma for twenty three years. In 1919 Mr. Mitchell came to Central as president. The progress of the school has been remarkable. The enrollment has increased from four hundred thirty four to fifteen hundred students in the regular year. Three new building have been added, Mitchell Hall, Wantland Hall, and the In- dustrial Arts Building. One of the first steps in Mr. Mitchell’s progressive program was seeur- ' ing the recognition of Central by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. At the convention of the National Education Assoeia- tion in Boston, February 1928, Central State Teachers College was placed in the A-1 group of teachers’ colleges. All who come in contact with Mr. Mitchell either as student, faculty member, educator, or merely an acquaintance realize that his success is due to his thorough understanding of his work, his ability to read and understand human nature, his clear vision, his appreciation of scholarship, and above all to the fact that he is first and always interested in the welfare and progress of the students not only while they are in college but after they have entered 1] their profession as teachers. twenty-seven