London Normal School - Spectrum Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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The Minister Of Education It is a pleasure for me as Minister of Education to convey greetings and good wishes on behalf of the Government of Ontario to you, the students in attendance at the London Teachers ' College. The year has been a busy one, presenting challenges quite different from those of secondary school, but I know that you have worked well and faithfully and that those of you who are graduating this June will take up your duties with zeal and competence. The teaching profession demands the best from its members, and to advance in your chosen work you, yourselves, must con- tinue to grow intellectually and professionally. May you ap- proach your dual task of teaching and learning with the vigour, the enthusiasm, and the fresh outlook of youth. WILLIAM G. DAVIS, Minister of Education. Toronto, November 13, 1962.

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WINDSOR TEACHERS ' COLLEGE LIBRAR? FOREWORD London Teachers ' College is a school with a clearly defined purpose — to pro- duce the best possible teachers for On- tario children. If we strive to be as enthusiastic and dedicated as the Mas- ters who trained us the children will be in excellent hands. As you read through the Spectrum you will remember our slow and occasionally hesitant progress towards this goal. It was sometimes difficult but it was often fun. We have not forgotten to include the lighter mo- ments for a sense of humour is as indis- pensable to a teacher as a red pencil! Registration, orientation, practice teach- ing, examinations and finally graduation — all were part of the plan to effect our Metamorphosis from would-be-teachers to polished professionals. To our new teachers, the graduates of 1963, we de- dicate this book. CONTENTS GREETINGS FACULTY CLASSES LITERARY MUSIC ATHLETICS SUCIAL EVENTS GRADUATIUN ADVERTISING

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Next year you will do a number of wonderful things for the children whom you teach. Of all the wonders which teachers work, it sometimes seems to me that the greatest is that three-fold progression — building skills for reading, creating an appetite for reading, and developing a taste for good reading. The artisan teacher accomplishes the first; the craftsman achieves the second; to create the third demands the teaching artist. In my last message to you, let me tell you how a little boy discovered for himself the magical world of books. It is in one of Rudyard Kipling ' s short stories: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep . The hero is a five- year-old called Punch, who is exiled from his parents in India to a harsh preparatory school in England. Here is the first step: Aunty Rosa sat him upon a table and told him that AB meant ab- Why? said Punch. A is a and B is bee. Why does ABmean ab? Because I tell you it does, said Aunty Rosa, and you ' ve got to say it. Aunty Rosa wins, and Punch has to learn his abc ' s till: that week brought a great joy to Punch. He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that The Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat Came in. Now I can truly read, said Punch, and now I will never read anything in the world. So Punch was forced to learn something he did not want; and quite sensibly he made up his mind to waste no further time upon it. Yet you see what happens: He throws his loathed brown primer back into the classroom cupboard, and out there tumbles a tattered and coverless book of boys ' stories. Because there is nothing else for him to do, Punch begins to read for himself, and the miracle begins to unfold: This, says Punch, means things, and now I will know about everything in the world. So Punch found out for himself the greatest discovery that a child can make during his schooling, that all fairyland is to be won by the mere opening of a book. Punch had to make this discovery on his own, and in spite of his teacher. But my hope for you, and my parting wish to you, is that you will rise beyond the level of teaching artisan and craftsman to become a teaching artist. Then many of your children, too, will find out for themselves this greatest discovery in their whole education. — F. C. Biehl 5