Identifier: trainingschoolqu84east (find matches)
Title: The Training School Quarterly June, July, August 1921
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: East Carolina Teachers Training School
Subjects: ECU History Education
Publisher: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company
Contributing Library: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
Digitizing Sponsor: Joyner Library, East Carolina University

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the public schools of the State. At thesame time we keep a close watch on all who go through andendeavor to let none by who will not do efficient work asteachers. It is our belief that the State should provide a good publicschool for every North Carolina child. The public schoolshould be good enough for the sons and daughters of ourhighest order of citizen and anything less than this is not goodenough for our most humble citizen. I can never get the bestfor my child until I am willing to give the best to your child.We will never do our full duty by our children until we pro-vide a good school for every child. Buildings and equipmentare not schools. At best they are only places where schoolsmay be conducted. It is impossible to have good schools with-out first providing efficient teachers. Money judiciously spenton school houses and grounds is well spent, but it is of littlevalue to childhood unless much money is spent trainingteachers to conduct schools in these buildings. We are not
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Scenes from Monsieur Beaucaire Annual Report of President 365 spending too much money on school houses but the amount isout of all proportion to the annual expenditures for teachertraining. I do not hold that a teacher and a pupil on a logmake a school, but a teacher and a pupil will come nearermaking a school without the log than the log and a pupil with-out a teacher. It is the one purpose of this school to give to the childrenof North Carolina efficient teachers and it should be yourmission and our mission to impress upon our people the neces-sity for strengthening this school and enlarging its usefulnessuntil we in a measure supply enough teachers to make teach-ing a profession in North Carolina and a profession equalin the eyes of the public to law and medicine, for it is indeedof more importance to our State than law and medicine com-bined. Our people do not see this, because the teachers dealwith the child while these touch the mature citizen in his dailylife and we see most cltrainingschoolqu84east

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