Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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sem BP-WWW 1867 lo 0 of s HJ.. Three quarters ot a order following the long educator laboring to the ville, Missouri, the first education ot teachers. The CAMPUS TODAY D I X887- sl'-SO w- Y- xB'-'W X Y SLP-N1 ON 3832 ' century ago on Sept. 2, l867, as America started to set her house in B 1 and devastating war between the states, Ioseph Baldwin, pioneer end that democracy might prevail in America, established in Kirks- institution west of the Mississippi river devoted primarily to the E my .:.,.,. . - f'f .rx s E'

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ANNIVERSARY OTED TO A GREAT IDEAL An all-embracing idealism guided Baldwin in shaping his pioneer institution. Said he, to elevate teaching from the position of a vacillating empiricism to that of the chief of the arts is the worlds supreme work . With emphasis upon sound scholarship in the great fields of knowl- edge, a thorough understanding of the facts and processes of professional education, and ex- pertly directed experiences in the laboratory school, he cut the pattern for the American Teachers College as it is known throughout the World today. Seven administrations have kept faith in this far-reaching ideal and in this pattern for teacher education. From this 97.5 , , . . R ggi! X X pioneer institution have gone forth teachers and leaders to X839 logs help shape the destiny of America. i937 is Enscsflili FPA 197.5 i899 i. DOBSON 11.2 1 vvnsiifil fl'll tes CAMPUS THEN