San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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PRESIDENT E. L. HARDY

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STATE NORMAL $CHOOL, SAN DMD, CAL. JUNE. I91 I COMMENCEMENT NUMBER Aims of the Administration BY PRESIDENT E. L. HARDY Frankly, my aim, as president of the school, is first to cultivate such relations with the faculty, together with the alumni as the sons and daughters of Alma Mater, and the body of students as her children, that we shall be all one body, dominated, as teachers and student-teachers, by one ideal of personality. For personality. as I suggested in a recent message to the alumni, is the greatest gift to man, and our school should grow in stature and in grace of personality, as it hopes to grow in size and in usefulness to 'the State. Our conceptions of this ideal of a personality that shall make us all one body should be very clear cut. Just as we may say that our school colors, white and gold, symbolize, the white, truth, and the gold, worth, so that together they mean that our school stands for True Worthtt, so our ideal of the personality of the school should so definitely figure forth truth to type and social worth that we may say that our school stands for true culture and worthy craftsmanship. During the coming summer, a prominent normal school president will discuss, at a great meeting of teachers to be held in our own State, the problem of the relations of academic work and professional work in normal schools. There can be but one relationship,eit is that of soul to body. We can sum it all up in a very liberal paraphrase of one of the sayings of So- crates, by declaring that wherever there is teaching, there will -be teachers, -that wherever there may be, of social and personal worth1 something to communicate, there will be the communicating teacher. Our grand aims will be, then, to assure ourselves of what we have been pleased to term the literacy of intrants ; to give them a year of work in the definite blocking out of ore-bodies in the vast mine of knowledge; and, finally, after they have passed the scrutiny of the faculty as to fitness for teaching, to put them into the training school Where they may learn to smelt and mint this ore into current coin. The time seems too short. Would it not be well if the State were so to legislate that the diploma of the Normal School would entitle a graduate to teach as a cadet or an apprentice for not more than two years, returning thereafter for a hnal year of professional work before acquiring the right to hold a permanent certificate to teach in an elementary school? Let us consider again what Socrates said: Did ever any man believe in horse- manship, and not in horses? or in flute-playing, and not in iiute-playerst , or, tso We can easily imagine him saying ttin teaching and not in teachers .