1943 Fredericton Special Convocation (August)
Graduation Address
Delivered by: Barker, William McLeod
Content
"UNB Honors C.N. Crutchfield, W. McL. Barker" Telegraph Journal (16 August 1943): 2. (UA Case 69, Box 1)
Dr. Barker, in delivering his address, spoke on the tradition of education of being the greatest force governing home, school and church in a child’s life.
"In any home where you find the tradition of education, where it is expected that the children will be educated we have no difficulties with those children at school," said Dr. Barker. "It is the part of every teacher and parent to build up the idea of education as the thing to do. Tradition is the greatest force, no one can measure it. It has put us in this war and it will carry us through to the end."
Touching on the education of teachers, Dr. Barker stated that the foundation of good teaching is "social security," "when with the fear of want and its sister-fear old age removed you will be able to establish and then choose your teachers." Teachers should be selected, he said, and then training should be long enough so that only the trained and the qualified would be allow to teach.
Education itself does not make a good teacher, he noted. Schools and degrees should be pre-requisites to a teacher. When they choose teaching as a profession they should stick to it as such and not as something to be cast aside. "You cannot make a good teacher by theory alone," concluded Dr. Barker, "a true teacher must be an artist as well as a workman."
Dr. Barker, in delivering his address, spoke on the tradition of education of being the greatest force governing home, school and church in a child’s life.
"In any home where you find the tradition of education, where it is expected that the children will be educated we have no difficulties with those children at school," said Dr. Barker. "It is the part of every teacher and parent to build up the idea of education as the thing to do. Tradition is the greatest force, no one can measure it. It has put us in this war and it will carry us through to the end."
Touching on the education of teachers, Dr. Barker stated that the foundation of good teaching is "social security," "when with the fear of want and its sister-fear old age removed you will be able to establish and then choose your teachers." Teachers should be selected, he said, and then training should be long enough so that only the trained and the qualified would be allow to teach.
Education itself does not make a good teacher, he noted. Schools and degrees should be pre-requisites to a teacher. When they choose teaching as a profession they should stick to it as such and not as something to be cast aside. "You cannot make a good teacher by theory alone," concluded Dr. Barker, "a true teacher must be an artist as well as a workman."
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