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

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS 1970 I am Aomewhat awed by the honoun glven to me o5 cpeafzlng on behal5 o5 the otudent body. I have necelved a lot o5 advtce GA to what I chould lay dl well afs how long I Ahould tahe to Aay lt. So I decided to tahe the gentle hlnt gtven to me by aevenal otudento and wlll thy to heep my nemanhe bn,Le5. No one can deny that thla hao been a moot event5ul yeah 5on P.T.C. CLA an tvustltutlon ln thu comnunlty. I ne5m not to the pnopooed amalgamation wlth the local unlvenolty but aathen to the 5ac,t that 5on the 5Uz4t tone ln the llluntnlows hbstony o5 the college a hochey champlorwhlp hae been won by a P.T.C. team -- awnovtng all doubt 5aom the mtndc o5 the unluenzalty and corrmunlty college Atudento ae to the vboillty o5 the Teachens' College maleo. Penhapo we could ne5leet bach 5on a moment on oome o5 the amuotng oltuatlona we 5ound oamelveo tn dunlng the yeah. Rememben that 50zlt weeh when we punchaeed oun ant hlm -- 5nom a gnoceny Atone! and oun textboolu -- 5nom a ctgan Atone! How about thoae Fnlday a5tmnoon planning Aesolonl when we gazed wut5ully out the wlndowo at the beaatL5ul autumn a5tvLnoon while tnytng to conjune up come nazzle-dazzle lrvtfnoduetlona 5oh thooe 5Uu5t fshahy lesconn wlth them who, when, why, what, how, whue etc. Then lt wat on to the weelz long teaching expenlencu when we tolled untll the eanly moanlng houno, annlvtng at the cchoolo wlth blood Ahot eyeo, a papen bag 5ull 05 conmete matenlal and all the phyolcal chanaetvzmtlcl 05 a membm o5 the Gefzltol-5on-lunch-bunch, only to be told at the end o5 the day that we lached enthaotavom. One thing ls cefztaln -- we won't 5onget thla yeah 5oa come tone to come. In all pnobablllty we have dl55eJ1,lng vtewa G-6 to the methodology we have been expoaed to and ln aegando to lm e55ectlveneM. whateven owl opinion, lt to now up to ua to apply what we have leanned tn a mannen that wlll enable ue to aeach oun pensonal goelo ao teachenfs. The claeonoom wlll be the ultimate pnovlng gnound 5oa all o5 ue and I am convtnced that oun pen5onmance will be detefzmtned by what we have going 5011 aa an tndtvlduau, that pejusonal delve whlch muot motivate each o5 ws. I want to make only one pejwonal oboeflvatlon on education and lt Q pnompted at lealt tn pant by the tfzaglc evento o5 the paet 5ew weeho. One cannot vtew ouch uncon- tnolled hoatned and vtolence wlthout conmentlng on lt. It 41 my belle5 that oun pnbnany concejzn at teachexw ohaald be 5on the cheld ae a ooclal nathen than an tntelleetual being. 1 thlnh that the cchoolu have pnovtded adequately 5on the chlld tn an tntellee- Iual Aenoe. One only llllb to looh at the tncneafse ln man'4 hnowledge o5 hu wonld both pact and pneaent aa well al the naptd advancel tn the 5teld.o o5 technology. we hnow the compozsltlon and age o5 the eanth'A cnuat, we can Aend men to the moon, yet blood- Ahed continued tn the Atneeto, pnejudlce as wldupnead and we otlll have an even tncneaestng numben o5 tholse who ane povvzty-ctnlchen. Somehow, man hae 5alled to develop Aoelally aft the came nate he hal developed tn many othcm aneao. It u oun aesponetblllty to tnotlll ln thoce we teach, an attltude o5 nupect 5on the nights o5 othefw, accep- tance o5 othezw' dl55menceo and a oenoe o5 neoporustblllty 5on the wel5ane o5 each otha. Thls un't Aomethlng that can be laid down ln a cwullculum, lt hal to be lived by the teachen ln the elalsnoom and ln all othen phaasu o5 nm on hen ll5e. we need auch an tnnm dnlve tn onden to peJL5onm oun wonh acceptably, but we Ahould nemembvz that all the noble thoughla and tdeaus add up to little on nothlng L5 they ane not cannled out. Good tdeaes, the oolutlono to many vzltlcal pnoblemc aae wonthleoo until pat lnto action. Do you neallze that L5 you plan to teach 5oa the next thbpty-5tve on 601119 yeana that you only have appaoximately elght thouusand teaching daye le5t. You had betten get baby! ,,-5 1 . , l?fg'f1vk,6 ..'x.fg X

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