Peterborough Teachers College - PTC Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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, To the graduates of the 1946-47 class, I should like to extend a most sincere Wish for success and happiness in your work as teachers. -M. OLIVE CLELAND. You must have a house to live in and it must be built so that it will be permanent and furnished so that it will be interesting. It is your thought house. .... Ada Cox Fisher. -B. LATIMER. To the students of '46-47 go my best Wishes for a successful and happy teaching career. In the days that lie ahead may each one of you:- Hold high the torch! In your strong hands The future lies to-day. Hold high the torch! Its light may help Others on the Way. The World needs young and steady hands To guide it right to-day, And loyal hearts and steadfast minds! Be it yours to lead the Way. With pleasant memories of our art classes together. Sincerely, CONSTANCE E. WAGAR. TEN LAWS OF SUCCESS 1. Work Hard-Hard work is the best investment a teacher can make. 2. Study Hard-Knowledge enables a teacher to work more intelligently and effectively. . 3. Have Initiative-Ruts often deepen into graves. 4. Love Your Work.-Then you will find pleasure in mastering it. 5. Be Exact.-Slipshod methods bring slipshod results. 6. Have the spirit of conquest.-Then you can successfully battle and overcome difficulties. 7. Cultivate Personality.-Personality to the teacher is what perfume is to the flower. 8. Help and Share with Others.-The real test of teacher greatness lies in giving opportunities to others. 9. Be Democratic.-Unless you feel right toward your fellow men you can never be a successful leader of men. 10. In all things do your best.-The teacher who has not done his best has done nothing. The teacher who has done his best has done every- thing. -G. E. MUNRO, Page Seven

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Staff Messages To condition teachers-in-training to meet challenges is one aim of the Normal School. True teachers thrill with pleasure in meeting such problems, pedants are bored thereby. Awaiting solution, there are such questions as determining what children of various ages ought to be learning, the individualization of instruction, and how to develop fully the abilities of every child. What will you be pleased to contribute? May each of you be a happy teacher: there is no other kind. --F. B. SMITHERAM. 4'All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistakeg not because it isn't a good thing to improve the world if you know how to do it, but because struggling and striving is the worst way you could set about doing anything. . . fGeorge Bernard Shawl. G. L. WOODRUFF. 4'Sing, sing, music was given To brighten the gay and kindle the living. QUIRT MCKINNEY. WHY I TEACH Because I would be young in soul and mind Though years must pass and age my life constrain, And I have found no Way to lay behind The fleeting years, save by the magic chain That binds me, youthful, to the youth I love, I teach. Because I would be wise and wisdom find From millions gone before, whose torch I pass, Still burning bright to light the paths that wind So steep and rugged, for each lad and lass Slow-climbing to the unrevealed above, I teach. Because in passing on the living flame That ever brighter burns the ages through, I have done service that is worth the name, Can I but say, The flame of knowledge grew A little brighter in the hands I taught, ' I teach. -OLGA I. JOHNSTON. Page Six

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To the Graduating Class of 1947 N THE entrance hall of a great institution, where students like you are preparing for a life of service in the teaching profession, stands a foun- tain with a green-bronze statue of The Boy and the Duck by Emory Seidel. Engraved in the stone of the enclosing base are the words, Every- one That 'l'n1rsteth, Come Ye to the Waters. The Canadian people have committed themselves to a programme of universal education. ln common with but a few other nations our country offers to every boy and girl an opportunity to drink of the waters. And you as teachers-in-training have undertaken voluntarily to assume the greatest position of trust and responsibility in Canada's educational pro- gramme. The teacher is the keystone in the educational arch. The opportunity to serve others through teaching has never been so great. Never before have the children of our province needed wise guidance by competent teachers so much. May your period of training fit you to give without stint of your energy, your enthusiasm and your under- standing in the interests of our boys and girls. And in quenching the thirst for truth of those under your care, may you End great personal happiness. F. S. RIVERS. ' Inspector of Professional Training Schools. REGARD it as a privilege to welcome you to the teaching profession. and to offer you my best wishes for happiness and success in your chosen field of work. I wish you happiness in your work, because a happy teacher means a happy classroomg and in a happy classroom the growth and development of children most readily takes place. Children are happiest when they are active in pursuits that are suited to their stage of developrnentg when the activities they engage in are motivated by a strong purposeg and when they have a sense of achieve- ment and progress. Under such conditions a co-operative relationship between teacher and class. and among members of the class, is readily established and maintained. Under such conditions learning takes place most effectively and with the greatest economy of effort and time. Happiness in one's work depends on one's success in it. Success in teaching means that the pupils shall not only learn the facts and skills offered by the curriculum, but that they shall grow in their ability to work and play and live with others. Such success can only be attained by the teacher who knows his pupils and is interested in them as people. as well as knowing his subject-matter field and how to present it. It demands intelligent planning, unlimited good-humoured patience, and the persistence which does not admit defeat. Such success, when it comes, brings a deep and abiding satisfaction to the teacher who has achieved it. With all my heart I wish that you may have success in great measure, and that the cup of your satisfaction may be heaped up and flowing over in the years to come. Sincerely, C. F. CANNON. Toronto, March 26th, 1947. Superintendent of Elementary Education. Page Eight -