Word: professionals
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The scope of the Graduate School of Education is not adequately indicated by the phrase "the training of teachers". The School is much concerned, to be sure, with technical problems of teaching, and will always make special provision for inexperienced students, who need not only a general introduction to their...
...many instances, the graduates of the School will become superintendents of school systems, either in cities or in counties and states. School administration is now a well defined profession in which men (and more recently women) of the requisite professional preparation may command good salaries and be sure of the opportunity to use their best talents in a recognized form of public service. Already a considerable number of men whose training in Education was secured at Harvard are superintendents in larger cities. Superintendents F. V. Thompson of Boston, F. W. Ballou of Washington, D. C., C. R. Reed of Akron...
...were possible to express in a single word the result the School aims to achieve in its students, perhaps the best term to use would be constructivemindedness. To be constructiveminded in a profession calls for a "professional consciousness" such as can be fostered by study of the history and theory of the profession and of the institutions in which its work is carried on; it calls also for mastery of the technical elements of the profession, its routine of habits, skills and adjustments; but it calls most of all for the spirit of research. The Graduate School of Education would...
Dean Holmes, in reviewing the history of the Graduate School of Education, pointed out the close association which should exist between the school and the State Department of Education. Both institutions have the same problems and the same goal, namely the advancement of civilization through better educational work. Dean Holmes...
Dean Holmes then explained that although between 17,000 and 18,000 new high school teachers are needed a year here, only a few hundred are necessary in France and Germany. This demonstrates the importance of training teachers to teach and of interesting young men and women in the profession...