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Western Carolina Teachers College Commencement Address 1951

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  • CCIMEIJCÆIENT ADDPESS WESTERN CAROLINA TEAC}IÆRS COLLEGE CULLOWHEE, NORTH CAROLINA JUNE 5, 1951 By D. RAMSEY By title, by law and by historic intent, this is a teacher's college. Its central and overriding purpose is to train those indispensable servants of democracy — the teachers of our public schools. It belongs to the people all of the people - of North Carolina. It was conceived in their passionate and sacrificial i.hterest in education. It is nourished by their ever-constart desire to insure to their children an adequate supply of richly qualified teachers Many of you who are members of today ts graduating class will enter the service of society as the teachers of its children. You have chosen your lifots career — with deliberation and, i am confident, with a high sense of professional dedication. The happy but laborious years you have spent here have equipped you to enter upon this career inmcdiatcly without ary interncship. The profession which you have chosen for yoursclf is large — the largest in the land. Thero ore approximately ono million public school teachers in active service in the United States. There aro more teachers than attorneys and physicians and dentists and architects taken togcthor. In North Carolina, our public school system has in its presont employ approximately 29,000 teachers. Two thousand must bo added during the next two years to take core of the incrcasod enrollment on thc present allotment basis. Despite tho fact that it numbers four times as many mcmbers as the combined populations of Vermont, Now Hampshire and Nevada, the procession is not overcrowded. On +0hc contrary, thcro is an acute shortage of properly qualified teachers. It least soven out of overy ono hundrod teachers presently employed hold cmcrgcncy or sub—standard certificates and should be replaced by teachers with ctandard training. This is not tho whole of the disturbing story. This scarcity of adequately trained teachers will grow rather than dinish in the years ixmediately ahead. This year t,ho colleges and universities of tho nation aro turning out only 32,000 candidates for elementary teaching positions. At least doublo that number will be required t,o fill the vacancies created by rctiromcnts, increased enrollmcnt and Iowcr pupil loads. During the next six years, the enrollment of the public schools will increase 7,000, 000. This will call for a quaptor of a million additional teachers. The visible supply of new teachers is far short, of this figure. The members of this graduating class who enter the teaching profession will never bc tortured by the fear that there will be no openings for them. No depression, however severe, will bring unemplqmcnt to them. There will always be a demand for their professional training and experience.
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