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

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aledictor ddress QrH1llhP 2 K On this, our Graduation Day, it is my privilege to pay our tribute to all those people whose guidance has prepared us to be teachers, and express our feelings as we leave North Bay Teachers' College to take our places in the classrooms of Ontario. Our past graduations have meant the culmination of a year's work and the end to a particular way of life. This does not hold true for us today. Though we assume a new role and the new title of teacher, we remain essentially students. For the true teacher is always a student. In high school our work as students affected only a small circle of people. Our achievements and our failures, in the final analysis, were significant only to our- selves. Now in the dual role of teacher and student we accept the full responsibility of our profession. Everything we areg everything we learng everything we do takes on a new importance, for it will affect the lives of the children whose education has been entrusted to us. We recognize the awesome responsibility we face- yet we are prepared to meet the challenge. Throughout this past year we have workedg and as we worked became aware of how much more we must do. As we studied children and teaching we built a small but comprehensive resource. lt is a resource that will stand us in good stead, but it is up to us to develop it, extend it to fit the needs of any system, any school, any class- room in which we find ourselves. To do this, we must cultivate an awareness of life. We must become perceptive enough to really see a situation and to learn from each experience. Perhaps most important, we must have a love for learning for it is this that forms an intangible bond between child and teacher. We demand a great deal of ourselves as we enter our classrooms next September. From these classrooms we will never graduate, but we will continue to grow along with our pupils. As we move into this new position l would like to extend our thanks to Mr. Deyell, the masters, the associate teachers and the clergy who have pre- pared usg who have shown us the true meaning of the word teacher. Our thanks but not our farewells, for as teachers we will undoubtedly meet again in the profession to which we all belong. Susan Kivioja 14