North Bay Teachers College - Polaris Yearbook (North Bay, Ontario Canada)

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The Religious Instructors' Messages Dr. John J. Deutsch, Principal of Queen's University, in a Convocation address at Mclvlaster University in May, 1968, defined education as a continuing process where the acquisition of knowledge is not the primary intent. He defined education as the means by which we acquire the skills for continuous learning. He enunciated his thesis thus: ln the past, education has tended to be a onetime thing- a stage in the preparation for life. ln the Canada of the future, education will have to be an all -time thing and a constant pre-occupation of life. ln- stead of being a stage in the passage of youth, our time at school and college will be a period in which we learn how to learn for the rest of our days. This view of education must predominate because we live in a world in which the stock of knowledge is doubling every ten to fifteen years. If Dr. Deutsch is right in his pre- dictions, then ln the Canada of the future, education, research and the handling of information will comprise the largest and most important activity in our society. It will employ more people, cost more money and have more far-reaching consequences than anything else we do . The changing shape of education has vast implications not only for the design of educational facilities, the training of teachers and the development of curriculum- it poses a new challenge for the role of the teacher. The teacher's primary task must increasingly be to help young people recognize the importance of education as a continuing process. The curriculum must be seen not simply as a repository of knowledge, but as the device by which the appetite for more learning is developed- learning which goes beyond the classroom and which ever increases in range and scope. If this educational concept is to be realized then teachers must be skilled not only in the science of communication but also in the art of working with people. The pupil must be seen not only in terms of his present aptitudes, but in terms of his real potential. The outward direction of the teacher should be designed to stimulate the pupil to reach beyond himself to goals which are large enough to call forth his very best. This is to picture teaching in very grand terms. Of course it is! Teaching is a very important calling and will increasingly be so. If the contribution made by the local Ministers during your college year has done little else, we hope we will have at least conveyed our commonly held conviction that working with people and help- ing them to grow is the most exciting and challenging calling there is. This for us is a great Christian vocation. We earnestly hope teaching will be for you. -The Protestant Instructors in Religious Education. Something which has existed since the beginning, that we have heard, and we have seen with our own eyesg that we have watched and touched with our handsg the Word, who is life- this is our SUBJECT. fl Iohn 1:15 No greater privilege or responsibility can be any man's than to announce to others this message which alone leads to Truth. It is yours! May you be true to your calling and experience every success in your profession as Christian teachers! -The Catholic Instructors in Religious Education-

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Religious Instructors Sister St. Boniface B. Au 9 Mg A o Rev. I. Andrassy Rev. O.N. Moffat BQAUI B.D. V R Rev. W.C. Kitt vu-of M,A., B.D., Th.M., Rev. C.W, Cope 1 Rev. T. Heinze 2 vs? Sister Nora B. A. T1 ekfgsfj x 1 Rev. A. C, Young Rev. G.C, Gillingham Rev. L,E, Peterson B.A. 10 Rev. Folz B, A ,

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