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Summer Session Kansan
Friday. July 11. 1958
Product Of Our Teachers
The superb health of America, her agricultural richness, her great steel girders driven like thousands of silver nails into the sky, their industries, her energies are all products of an endless stream of Smiths and Schmidts.
Their labors are truly commendable, but the builder often receives too many laurels in our increasing materialistic society.
The eminent English playwright, George Bernard Shaw, once said, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
This remark grates like a misguided piece of chalk across a blackboard of absurdities and fallacies.
Too often the teacher is notched below those that "do" and salaried beneath the garbage collector with a minute fraction of the banker's prestige.
Granted that a lot of educators can become unbearable with their talk of education rather than of teaching, but it is the teachers who must shape the masses, before the masses can shape the world.
Too often today our teachers are portrayed as narrow-minded authoritarians with the disposition of an army tactical officer and the understanding of a prison warden.
They are often bogged down in a mire of responsibilities to school boards, principals, parents and loyalty oaths.
Educators must be provided higher salaries, smaller teaching loads, and more time for research, else the roots of our growth will wither before they sprout.
Our society seems to have forgotten that the marrow of our ideals and ideas was born and fostered by teachers.
Socrates, Aristotle, Buddha, these are only a few seeds of our beginnings. These were the non-conformists of their day, who became the fountainhead of our orthodox after their deaths.
It was their task, as is the teacher's job today; to refine the emotions of man, to clarify and inspire. The teacher deals with human enterprise; the manufacturer with material enterprise.
The regard we lavish on one as compared to the other presents a strange picture of values.
The education system, as it stands today, seems to be set up for the specific purpose of discouraging ambitious, thinking, dedicated people from joining its ranks.
It is not polemical to search for basic truths. If most of the "pro" drives for elevating the teaching profession in present-day America are shrugged off by the people, then perhaps we had better consider the sower before tasting the fruits of our freedom.
—The Daily O'Collegian Oklahoma State University
Teachers Must Be Gifted
Said a first grader of his teacher via a scrawled tribute entered in the Washington Post's "favorite teacher" essay contest:
"I wish she was smart enough to teach the second grade too next year."
Pity the teacher! For there are school boards, parents and taxpayers all over the land who also subscribe to this harmful fable; That it takes more ability to teach the second grade than the first; more to teach the eighth than the seventh; more to teach "secondary" classes than elementary and so on.
But there are abilities and abilities—gifts and
gifts. And many an experienced college professor who suspects he understands more about his subject than he does about his students bows in respect to primary grade teachers he has known.
Comprehensive of calculus, of the functioning of money, of the quantum theory, of the sequences of history may have yielded to his diligent concentration and persistence.
But how does one acquire the sensitive intuition to lead a child's thought out of utter inexperience into this already overexperienced world?
—The Christian Science Monitor
Chuckles In The News
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — County Farm Agent George Hobson found out why two rabbits were producing no offspring. He advised the owner to swap one of her two female rabbits for a male.
NEW YORK—Peeved at the weatherman's gloomy weekend forecasts thus far this summer, George Wopert, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, complained yesterday to weatherman Ernest J. Christie. "It is unfair to guess. The weathermen ought to know they are licked and give up," he said.
COLUMBUS. Ohio—The city took the guesswork out of its meter reading yesterday.
It accepted the resignation of Wayne L. Helphenstine, who was charged with guessing at meter readings instead of making a personal check.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"OH.THERE WE ARE—THE DEAN WILL SEE YOU NOW."
TV Notes
ABC has set Oct. 3 for the start of "Leave It to Beaver," which will move to that network after its first season which was spent with CBS. It will be seen Fridays at 8:30 p.m. Repeats of the first season's shows continue on CBS through the summer. This was one of the few situation comedy series of the 1957-58 season that caught on.
CBS reports it has captured London's Old Vic Company for a 90-minute version of "Hamlet" for presentation early in 1959. It will be one of the "Du Pont Show of the Month" series. The troupe will be on tour in this country at the time.
The "Zorro" fans can rest easy. The sponsor has signed the adventure series for another go-round next season over ABC, Thursdays at 8 p.m.
This letter is in answer to the editorial "Where Can We Appeal?" Here is one additional suggestion which the author apparently overlooked: pay the fine like a man and stop complaining about it. The policeman might have been doing his duty.
.. Letters ..
Editor:
Wallace Hoffman
Reece graduate student
P.S.—Yes. I do have an automobile registered on campus.
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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The site where the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was founded in 1863 is marked by a monument at Marshall, Mich.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
(Answer on Page 8)
ACROSS
1. Exploits.
6. Chief.
10. Kinn.
14. Emblem of New
Hampshire.
15. Vault.
16. Isinglass.
17. Home strategist:
2. words.
20. TV offering.
21. Altar boy.
22. First word of
"Home, Sweet
Home."
23. ___ qua non.
24. Impetuous people.
25. Thespians.
26. Slip.
27. Baldwin or
Jonathan.
28. "Sketch Book"
character.
29. What Rome
wasn't built in:
2. words.
30. Castor and Pollux.
31. Hard green stone.
32. Sea.
33. Glove material.
34. Ballroom dance.
35. Quivering motion.
45 Older.
47 Greek god.
48 Aurora.
49 Repeating.
53 Girl's name.
58 Unwelcome touring companies; 2 words.
60 Courage; Lat.
61 Pinault duck.
62 Floor coverings; Erit, colloq.
63 Distasteful.
64 Yard.
65 Outcome
DOWN
1 Crack.
2 Ireland.
3 Charitable gift.
4 Savoir-faire.
5 Crafty one.
6 Beginning of many a romance:
2 words.
7 Poet's contraction.
8 Stories.
9 Certain policemen.
10 Menu item.
11 Light-hearted.
12 Shoo!
13 Falsehood.
14 Albanse song.
19 Present occasion.
24 Vital part.
25 Command.
26 Exchange.
27 Hog caller's word.
28 World War I planes.
30 Zoo attraction.
31 Range of hills.
32 Fishing implement
35 Claimant to a throne.
38 Reliability.
39 Man's name.
41 Rail birds.
42 Former kingdom of Spain.
44 License plate.
46 Bellow.
48 Postage —
50 Bird.
51 Pueblo Indian.
52 Beige.
54 Tel —
55 Nonaspirate, as a consonant.
56 Household appliance.
57 Assistant: Abbr.
59 Hyson or gunpowder.
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