Kansas City Teachers College - Ye Pedagogue Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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YE PEDAGOGUE 1933 PRESIDENT GEORGE W. DIEMER W,,,,a,w! X LM! Mya W9 W7 Xl91U,.wf7 1 ,5,,,,,., X . JWWV

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1933 YE PEDAGOGUE PIQESIDEINITS MESSAGE This edition of Ye Pedagogue is dedicated to one of our most popular and valuable instructors. His name to all who know him has become almost a symbol of nature and of the great out-of-doors. ln dedicating this number to him, the students of Teachers College are being reminded that no finer influence can come into their lives than an under- standing love and appreciation of nature. In fact, the catastrophe that has befallen us, beginning in 1929, has made us realize that the most important things in education are not in terms of knowledge and skills but in terms of understanding and appreciation of the aesthetic and ethical values of life. These values are represented completely in the larger sense in nature, for after all the only place that we can find perfection in beauty and in law is in nature. Man has made nothing that is perfect, and the degree to which he has reached perfection is the degree to which he has been able to understand and apply natural laws. The prospective teacher, therefore, cannot have reached his highest possibilities either in his own character or in his work in life unless he has harmonized his life with the natural world about him. Nature and nature's laws have ever been a source of wonder to mankind. To the ancients the marvels in this world of wonder caused man to be super- stitious and to give supernatural explanations of phenomena about him. To the modern man, however, who in part knows and understands nature, it is but a revelation to him of the supremacy of law and orderg how the universe and all that is in it down to the tiniest bit of life or the smallest unit of matter behaves and conforms in accordance with great laws that are perfect and exact in their operation. To keep alive in our lives this spirit of wonder and, there- fore, to make us the more appreciative of creation that is all about us is one of the purposes of nature study and science in our schools. The teacher's greatest work is to help children-the citizens of tomorrow- to see the innate beauty and perfection in all creation: to train their eyes to see and their ears to hear, that with the poet they may know: There's music in the sighing of a reedg There's music in the gushing of a rillg There's music in all things, if men had ears, Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. l8l

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1933 YE PEDAGOGUE BOARD EDUCATION AND 1e'i GEORGE NIELCHER, EDWIN MESERVEY, Superintendent President JAMES LERQY SMITH A. O. THOMPSON ROBERT L. MEHORNAY e ' W K MRS. CAROLYN FULLER GEORGE C. TINKER MISS ANNETTE MOORE I 10 1