Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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ctw at VE O48 We See Ourselves E ARE LE.xv1Nc. HOMEQ it is necessary to take inventory of ourselves. Are we ready to teach? Do we realize the responsibility that will be ours? Are we going to give the best that is in us to our profession? These are the vital issues facing us as we leave these halls and enter upon our work. Are we ready to teach? After two years' sojourn in this Normal School, are we equipped to teach? Have we acquired the best of what Normal had to offer? Now is the time to decide, before we ever set foot in a classroom, that we are going to do some real teaching. Utherwise, we ought not to accept an appointment because, if we do not make this decision. we are not aiding the advance of educa- tion, but retarding it. Do we realize the responsibility that will be ours? Have we caught the full significance of our duty to the future generations of our country? Have we, through our Normal experience, realized the important influence we have in society? If not, let us catch it before we enter any classroom. Are we going to give the best that is in us to our profession? Is our pro- fession going to mean a life work to us or just one way of earning money? Are we entering it with the idea of getting without thinking of giving? Remember we get out of anything only what we put in. Giving our best to our profes- sion will pay big dividends. For two years we have worked together and I wish to express my apprecia- tion of your earnest effort and support. I ask one boon of you: may Dear Old Normal be as proud of us twenty-live years from now as she is today. One of You, AUGUSTUS HACKBIANN, Prcsideizt of '29, Twenty

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7 l t R' O13 Others See Us N .x SXl.Xl.l. southern town. a teacher stopped for repairs on her car. .X young boy fourteen years old. or thereabout. approached her and said, XYhen does school open. up your way? Some years ago, a party of teachers was traveling together, bent on putting in a summer of rest and enjoyment. In one city the guide whom they had em- ployed turned to one of them and said. You're a teacher. aren't you? Yes, but how did you know it There is something about you ! replied the guide. XVhat is this SOKlIi'l'HIXG that sets us apart from other people and why is it that we are known to be teachers? Is this SOMETHING desirable? Is it undesirable? Certainly, it nmst be desirable since so many of you have decided to answer the call of this profession and to become members of this body-great in numbers. SOMETHING .-XBUIIT YOU. You who set out upon the duty of teaching boys and girls the art of living must indeed be artists-artists at living. You will be so filled with the love of teaching, with the love of your pupils, with the joy of making ideals grow an- develop in the lives of your children that your contagious enthusiasm will be transmitted to them hy your inspiring personality-that hidden spring which attracts and holds. Your presence will command attention. will invite interests, will awaken life. Your pupils will learn to feel that it is good to know you, and to follow your teachings, for you will have poise, self-control, patience. The most fundamental characteristic of the teacher is sincerity, and by that word I include integrity of character. genuine worth, honesty, truthfulness, loyalty to your work, and a keen and high sense of justice. But sincerity is only a name, if you have not courage to put these ideals to use. Loyalty, honesty, conviction of what is right. are ideals to be LIYED. Teaching is leadership. You will be a leader and a guide. You will, there- fore, need keen insight into human nature: you will need to put yourself in to the place of others: you will need to enter into the feelings of your pupils, to under- stand their diliiculties, to glory in their achievements. and to inspire them to fur- ther attainments: you will need tact which implies self restraint. good temper, quick and kindly sympathy with the thoughts and feelings of both colleagues and pupils: you will need a fine sense of proportion. an ability to see the difference between big and little things. thus seasoning all with a sense of humorg you will need to grow personally each year in your work, in order that you may have a wider consciousness which will carry you far beyond the four walls of your class room into the feelings and hopes of other races and other nations. Dear friends of the class of twenty-nine and fellow teachers: Teaching in .. great adventure., It begins at the frontiers of childhood and with joyous, eager, hopeful children leads you into a world better for the part that you have played in its making. YYe welcome you to our profession. believing that you will find that SOMETHING and by contributing to it your youth and enthusiasm will and enrich its significance. Your friend. NIQLLIE W. Bnzosoxc. Nineteen

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