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Miss Dunkel

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Yes, Miss Dunkel, and although these duties add to the busy
lives of these yomg teachers, they are the very things which
make the physical education teacher eapable of exerting more
influence on youngstors than any other teacher in school, I
wonder if our parents realize how many times students seek
out the physical education teacher for aid in personal problems
which sometimes they fee 1 they can't even take to their own
fathers and mothers. We should be grateful as parents, and
as teachors, that education is recognizing the many contri-~-
butions to the whole child which physical education can makee
In this department the youngster finds an opportunity to
satisfy the fundamental cravings and needs of a developing
emotional, mental and physical self, The physical education
teacher who understands the technics of his or her field and
who possesses the true coneept of finc teaching fills a place
in the school and community that no other teacher can replaces

Yes, the old expression that teaching is a noble profession
may seem trite, but to a teacher who has experienced the rich
reward of seeing students grow and develop under his guidance
that phrase is potent with meaninge Modern education holds
forth the ideal of the “artist teacher", - the teacher who
achieves a degree of selflessness in using his life to serve
and enrich the lives of otherse That kind of teacher never
worries about drudgery or routine, for cach new student be-=
comes a fresh shallenging opportunity for creative
accomplishment. I said at the beginning that the letters
wetye discussed made me proud and happy, and I want to repeat
that, for they convince me that these young teachers have the
"artist teacher" concepte And with that ideal, thoy will act
as complenents to the parent and home in guiding children at
schoole

Thank you, Miss Dunkel, for this friendly fireside chat con-
eerming our yomgest teachers out in the field. They are
thinking not so much of what they want as of what life wants
of them. And either in their presence or their absence you
are well pleased with their reponses,. And too, it is the
presence of their own imer adequacy which is responsible

for the tranquil state of mind which these successful teachers

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