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Show LJ TON I A 1st I Milton Bennion Dean School of Education The School of Education is maintained for the preparation of teachers, supervisors of teaching, and educational administrators. It aims to develop in youth a professional spirit toward teaching. The young woman who expects to teach for a few years only should, nevertheless, qualify for this work with the same earnestness and thoroughness as one who expects to make teaching a life's vocation. She will be a better wife, a better mother, a better citizen for having done so. The young man who plans to teach a few years prior to the study of law or medicine should likewise give his time and energy to this business as though he meant to make education a life profession. He will be the better lawyer or physician for having done so. In any case the community cannot afford to turn over the education of the new generation to half-trained or half-hearted teachers, to persons whose primary interest is the money they can get out of teaching; money to be used as a means to something else. It is no longer desirable nor permissable to use teaching merely as a means means to something else. It is itself a profession of equal worth with any other. One of the greatest needs of college students today is the development of definite, socially valuable purposes, and direction of all school activities toward realization of these purposes. Aimless educational activity is about as effective as any other kind of aimless shooting. Milton Bennion 7L o u u m b e |