Arkansas State University - Indian Yearbook (Jonesboro, AR)

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The TJearlinq One who had known the librarian in her student days, can hardly realize that she is the same Sammie Nutt. She, by her firmness has been able to keep the library the quietest spot around Aggie. If one steps to the doors and glances in, he knows that the pupils are thoroughly appreciating the privileges afforded them. Just before book report time, Miss Nutt does a business that would compare with that of a toy shop just before Christmas. The school has supplied an unusually good list of periodicals. Maga- zines to suit every department have been provided. Each week the in- structors post lists from these magazines that call attention to articles pertaining to their subjects. Perhaps some of the readers may not know that through the influence of Senator T. H. Caraway this library is the depository for government publications. Much valuable material is to be found here. This is avail- able not only to the students but to citizens of Northeast Arkansas. This year ' s program is only a beginning of what the library will be when a new auditorium is provided ; the old auditorium is to be used as a library. Then a cork linoleum will be laid, modern reading tables, chairs and lights will be furnished, and much more shelving added. Many books both for departmental and general reference libraries will fill this new shelving.

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€bucatton Greeting his pupils, the master asked, ' What would you know of me? ' and the reply came: ' How shall we care for our bodies? ' How shall we rear our children? ' How shall we work together? ' How shall we live with our fellowman? ' How shall we play? For what ends shall we live? ' And the teacher pondered these words, and sorrow was in his heart, for his own learning touched not these things. Within recent years, the demand of students in education has seemed more than ever before, to be for the practical rather than the theoretical courses. This tendency is in keeping with the new demand in other fields of study and indicates a healthy interest in con- crete materials and in training that gives the ability to do. The above quotations are taken from the Principles of Education by Chapman and Counts, and we believe expresses the opinion of those connected with the De- partment of Education in this school. The aim is to give the student teachers those principles that will help them to teach their pupils the care of the body, the rearing of children, the qualities of co-operation with their fellow- men, and last but not least how to play, or to sum it up in a brief phrase, How to live successfully. .iiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiHiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiuiiiiiHH Twenty-eight