Teachers

The 1954 Brown and Gold magazine featured a full page article on teachers at Concordia. These are just a few extracts.

‘Perhaps teachers receive more criticism than people in other professions, because they have the difficult task of trying to impart some knowledge to students who often seem to be most unwilling to learn. Unfortunately they are criticized behind their backs. Students are quick to see a particular characteristic in a teacher, and before long that teacher is familiarly known among the students by a name describing that peculiarity. For this reason, teachers should be careful what they do or say because students often seem to be more attentive to these things than to class work.

At Concordia we have teachers with a wide variety of methods and mannerisms. We students notice particularly the pet sayings and mannerisms of our teachers. Although Mr Georg is a very good teacher, he frequently says ‘I mean’ in an attempt to make clearer what he has already said. Mr Robertson, our science teacher, is noted for his humour and his old school tie which he always wears. Mr Krieg, when in a meditative attitude, makes a practice of slowly rubbing his chin or elbow.
I hope I have not been too critical and given anyone the wrong impression of any of our teachers. We are fortunate to have such very good teachers, but they are unfortunate, because the shortage of teachers means they have more work to do than they should have.’

The photo shows Concordia's teachers in 1964.