Rhode Island School of Design - Portfolio Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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ALBERT E. SIMONSON Acting Chairman ' and Educational Consultant TEACHER EDUCATION

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= = . : Perhaps you are the pondering machine designer studying the fun- damentals and applications of indus- trial technology. Now in your thesis, you must create the machine to sup- plant all machines. Primed by the results of your research, with brain storm and flying T-square you con- ceive the orthographic designs which represent your master machine. You have but one question . . . will it really work?

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MASHAPAUG POND AREA Five years—the design of a playground, the potter’s wheel, the psychology of education, the teaching practice —all have been included in your preparation. Filled with ideas and ideals you pause to plan what you will say the first time you look into the shining faces appraising “the new teacher”. In your own way, you bec mien an architect, not of massive structures of wood and stohe but of minds. Perhaps as a result of your planning and example} these ot minds will develop a greater understanding and aye tation of design and living.