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

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--' V 5--f-rn PRESIDENTS MESSAGE A quarter of a century! A long time in the life of an individual, and yet, in the life of an institution only a brief span of time. Teachers College is still young in years and looking forward to unlimited years of growth and service in the future. In the history of the Kansas City school system, beginning in 1867, are many ' ' h' f Kansas resplendent chapters, but none that has meant more to the future citizens ip o City than the story of these twenty-live years of Teachers College. The College was h born out of the needs of boys and girls for better teachers. Its major purpose through t e years has been to fill that need. Every dollar that has been spent on its development ' ' ' h b nt from a one-year training school to a four-year degree granting college, as een spe for the purpose of helping Teachers College to serve better the children of Kansas City. No institution in Kansas City is dedicated to a higher purpose, and, when we consider the hundreds of capable, thoroughly prepared teachers who have gone into the schools of Kansas City from Teachers College, we believe it has achieved its purpose remarkably well. We celebrate, therefore, our silver anniversary. In doing so we are thinking in terms of the past only as the challenge to greater achievement in the future. During these twenty-five years Teachers College has served well, but it must serve better the more highly complicated program of education which we shall have during the next twenty- five years. We stand at the threshold of one of the greatest periods of educational development in the history of the nation. The school must more nearly meet the tremendously complicated social needs of the present and future. To do this the school must improve its program and facilities, and, it must have more highly qualified teachers than ever before. The teacher must not only have character, personality, and ability but must be broadly educated in all of the major fields of cultural experience, must have broad social understanding and experience, must have thorough professional knowledge, and must be fully prepared to use the very best techniques and methods that have been discovered through scientific research and experimentation. y Teachers College will continue in the future as in the past to seek out the finest and best young people to prepare for teaching, but, also it will continue to improve its curriculum, expand its program as the need arises, improve the quality of teaching on the part of its faculty, and accept continually the challenge of each day and year. Yes, we may look back over the quarter of a century of Teachers College history with pride. We believe the achievements of Teachers College justify such pride, but, as students and faculty and alumni, we must not rest on our laurels. We must have a vision of greater achievement and finer service for boys and girls! ISI ,,....f .aa- ' -., imiumf. '

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