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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 .
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6 WHITE 'AND GOLD Truly, all of us must admit that while we have had faith in teaching, we have not had that full faith and confidence in teachers that we would have if we knew that their professional attainments were based' upon a novitiate thoroughgoing in fundamentals followed by a period of real apprenticeship in the public system, and concluded by a year of study of the problems and methods of teaching done in the light of a real and responsible teaching experience. Modern society pins its faith on teaching, on the educative process. Society will have an equal faith in teachers, as the conductors of that process, when it is sure that they have something to teach and a truly professional skill in teaching it,-when it is reasonably assured that the teacher is not only a master of arts and letters, but equally a master of life. Since the foundations of life are physical, it should be the aim of any school dedicated to the training of teachers, to give an adequate physical education to all of its students, particularly to the pupils of the training school. In that school, at least, the whole conception should be, as nearly as possible, right, from the beginning. For this reason, adequate facilities, tincluding lockers and shower bathsl for playground work and athletics Will be installed on the campus for the training school, and proper, system- atic, physical education will be given to the children of the elementary school as well as to the students of the normal school. The giving of assist- anCe in the direction of this work will be an invaluable experience to the future teacher. Other new projects to be undertaken by the school are: the installation of a department of elementary agriculture, with especial reference to the work of the rural school; the equipment of a laboratory for work in edu- cation; an increase in the amount of training in rhythmic movement, oral expression and dramatization of history and literature in the elementary school; properly graded instruction in sex hygiene in the upper grades of the training school and full discussion of its problems in the student-teach- ersl conferences ; the olfering of one hundred hours of elective work in the upper division of the senior year, together with other developments in curri- culum and administration that cannot be here set forth for lack of space. You will pardon me, if in conclusion, I reiterate the thought that the day is past when the relation that a Normal School bears to the people can be narrowly formal and institutional. A school for teachers must be a living part of the Whole social body. As such, the more it has of distinctive social personality and the less of the spirit of the bureaucratic functionaire, the more will it be' able to foster for State service the loyalty and enthusiasm that have, in these latter years, been invoked by the ideal of service for one is city. It was this thought that led ex-President Black to declare, at a dinner in San Diego at which the leading men of the city were present to do him honor, All that I am, I owe to California. Our response to this pledge is instant, for all that we, as men and women in public service, are and can be, we will gladly owe to California.
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