NEED FOR TEACHERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 7

NEED FOR TEACHERS

APPEAL BY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT RESEARCH V. LEARNING “I subscribe heartily to the clain that this is an institution whose glor; is in its teaching. It is an anomaloui situation that so few colleges am universities are noted as teaching in institution for undergraduates. Re search is constantly claiming i greater degree of attention.” This observation was made during the inaugural address of Willian Mather Lewis, president of Lafayetti College, in which he discussed tin ideals and trend of university train iug. “A college does well to honour hin who adds to the sum total of know ledge, but it is untrue to Its trust if i does not equally recognise the inter preter of knowledge, the teacher whe is no less essential in the scheme o intellectual progress. “There is a tremendous amount o knowledge at the mine mouth today scarcely touched because of indifferen transportation facilities. Many falsi ideas, economic, scientific and socia are being foisted upon the multitudi because of a scarcity of men who can or more truly, who will, interpre sound knowledge simply. He continued that among the man; university committees should be founc the Committee on Teaching. Am upon this committee should be placet the teachers of the institution who through conference with the young in structors, extending over the firs weeks of their introduction to thei: task, could impart and perpetuate methods and principles of recogniset effectix-eness. Through this simph expedient already in operation ir some colleges much that is detrimen tal to intellectual activity in thi students’ early days may he over come.