Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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LAKEHEAD TEACHERS CCLLEGE PCDR

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PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE TO STUDENTS Before you enter upon your teaching career, pause to consider the heavy responsibilities you are accepting towards Society, towards your pupils, and towards yourself. Society at large will place the broadest demands upon you, for our educational system must be tailored to meet the complex philosophy and needs of a people who profess the creed of democracy. This philosophy and these needs are difficult to defineg they are still more difficult to fulfill in a rapidly changing and explosive type of civilization that possesses the power to bring about its own destruction. Society naturally looks to Education to nurture the wisdom through which will be realized the dream of a free and honourable people. Our concept of democracy dictates that your pupils are born free and equal. Their freedom demands that you recognize the same human dignity in all. Their equality, however, does not mean equality of intellect, it does mean equality of oppor- tunity. God has created each with his own peculiar set of capacities. The role of the teacher is to provide the inspiration and opportunity to bring these capacities to fruition, so that every child will move a step closer to becoming all that God created him capable of being. Your success in meeting these responsibilities towards Society and your pupils will be commensurate with the degree to which you meet your responsibility towards yourself. Gradu- ation from the College signifies that you have added to your natural talent sufficient intellectual growth and craftsmanship to show promise as a teacher. You owe it to yourself to ful- fill this promiseg to do so you will have to continue to grow academically and professionally. In both these fields you should be satisfied with nothing short of excellence. Blessed then will be the pupils who come within your care. May 13, 1964. N K f ' M Wm. A. West