University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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With rising school enrollments, Sputnikas challenge and the Nlittle red schoolhousew gone with the past, the education of future teachers is vitally important. lVIU's College of Education realized this need and is filling it with competent graduates. To the people in Education, school almost always means lnlrrying to Hill Hall on Red Campus. Here they learn every- thing from xKicldic Litn to Educational Psychology. Other key courses are History of American Education and Tech- niques of Teaching, all designed to prepare the prospective teacher for work in the adjoining Laboratory School. It is here that the uteacher is bornf, By actually showing the children that 3 and 4 are 7, or playing with them at recess, Education majors get an irreplacable 'lfirst hand ex- perience. It is this practice teaching on either the elemen- tary or secondary level, that is the real molding force. The latest methods of research on educational problems is applied to all instruction in the College. Thus, students will leave equipped - some will teachg some will supervise, some will do research, some will he educational counselors. But, all will have an excellent formal education plus a unique practical experience. Two offices guide the destinies of the College of Educa- tion. In them are Dean Loran G. Townsend and assistant Dean, Louis A. Eubank. This College, formally established in 1868, was the first teacher training institution to have a regular part in the college work of a state University. It is an outgrowth of the Hnormal schools of the 1880's'7 and since has grown into a formidable plant for the preparation of the teachers of A1Tl81'iC3.7S children. Student teacher rushes over the play ground keeping the kids out of trouble! 'Educatione teacher turn-out meets rising enrollments 'HW Hill Hall, the pseudo-Georgian structure which houses the College of Education.

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Dr L G Townsend is dean of Second childhood - the student playground the Urmiversity College ofEducafior1. keeper participates in a game with her charges. P Tea partys amud thelr own artwork these children in the Umversnty lab school receive the benefnt of a pro gressuve education taught bythe most modern methods 4 l t 5 24 . -ip

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Th'e Engineering building - housing the intricacies of the technical World. Pipes, pipes and more pipes where does it come in and go ouT?? Learning wth the real Thing