Montclair State College - La Campana Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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IN MEMORIAM

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LAURA EMBREE WOODWARD, B.S. O Instructor in Nature-Study MRS. EDITH TUFTS BRIDGE, B.S. Instructor in Pedagogy and Assistant to the Principal IRENE E. HOYT, A.B. Instructor in Kindergarten Subjects ELIZABETH HUNT MORRIS, M.A. Instructor in Psychology H. ETHEL CHILDS Instructor in Manual Arts LOUISE G. HUMPHREY, M.A. Instructor in English I ETHEL A. GROSSCUP, B.A. » t ' ) Head of Department of Physical Education and Hygiene PAVE OGDEN, Ph.B. Instructor of Kindergarten and Kindergarten Subjects ALICE THOMPSON Instructor of Education and Pedagogy ELLA H. GERHARD Instructor in Penmanship and Mathematics EVELYN NOBLE Instructor in Physical Education GRACE A. PATTISON, B.S. Teacher of First Grade LEILA G. FORBES Librarian KATHERYN E. HAYES Clerk AUDREY SKRONN Stenographer LOUISE L. STONE Assistant Instructor of First Grade NELLIE JACOBS Instructor of Second Grade

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mm jmm The TeacKer for tne New Age A new, strange, restless, puzzling, tantalizing age is here. Traditional beliefs and prac- tices in politics, religion, society, ethics and education are crumbling. The old earth has passed away, a new earth is in birth. Education makes life and in turn is remade by life. Neither is static, both change with each generation. Never did greater changes impend in our individual, social and national life than now. Education and teachers must change to meet the new order. Into this hurly-burly of perplexities, of shifting ideas and ideals, of tremendous possi- bilites , thousands of new teachers wll come each year to meet responsibilities and opportu- nities such as their predecessors have never known. What shall be the personality of the new teacher who must face the new day? He was a meek little man, with sagging frame, dim lamps and feeble ignition so runs the description of a college professor in a recent short story — a perfect type of what the teacher should not be. He (and in this paper, of course, he includes she ) must have a body that will stand a greater strain than was ever put upon a public school teacher before. He needs a heart that pumps the rich red blood to the ends of his fingers and toes, a stomach that digests a beefsteak without complaint, lungs that drink in deep draughts of God ' s fresh air, and nerves not like sweet bells, jangled, out of tune and harsh, but steady, responsive, controlled, like a well-tuned harp whose music sweetens and inspires all who hear. Given a good body and good health, he will be, as he should be, an optimist . Most of the great pessimists like Schopenhauer and Carlyle have been neurotics or dyspeptics. No teacher is fit to help in making a new and better America who is not full of hope and faith and cheer. He must believe with all his mind in boys and girls as the best possession of a nation, in the worth of education, in the perfectibility of young bodies and minds and souls, and above all, in his own vocation for this work. The pessimist may run a railroad or a bank, but he can ' t run a school. The teacher for the new day must be full of enthusiasm for his greatest task will be to inspire a cosmopolitan body of children from scores of races having various backgrounds, prejudices, handicaps and obsessions. Money can build a church, but money cannot fill a church with the spirit of the living God. Money erects school houses, but money can ' t make a school. In the old Genesis story man, fashioned by the fingers of Omnipotence, lay on the bosom of mother earth, a thing, a clod, a lump of clay, as helpless as the Galatea that Pyg- malion struck out from the marble. Then Divinity breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the thing became a man. He leaped, he ran, he rejoiced, he loved, he hated, he sinned, he fought, he worked, he acted his part in the strangest drama that ever was or ever will be, the drama of human existence, and all because he had been inspired from without. Inspira- tion comes today as inspiration came then, not from dead things, however splendid, but from the warm touch of a living soul. To inspire, to kindle ambition, to energize, to attract all sorts and conditions of childhood to the ideals of humble, virtuous, patriotic America is the task of the new teacher. 8