| Description | This item incorporates two letters sent to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury by Howard C. Cooksey, the Principal of the City of Birmingham Training College and the typescript of a message sent by Taylor Cadbury to students at the College. The City of Birmingham Training College provided training for new teachers before they began working in schools. These three documents are attached together.
On 4th May 1949 Howard C. Cooksey wrote to Taylor Cadbury to ask if she would write a message to feature in the programme for the College's Presentation Day. Taylor Cadbury's short message is attached to Cooksey's letter and provides an account of her own schooling. Remarking on her interest in the scope and possibilities of education, Taylor Cadbury emphasises the importance of teachers in the 'changing and troubled world'. Reiterating an idea which featured in many of her public addresses, Taylor Cadbury's message asks:
'Can we find opportunity in our present educational system to counteract the growth of materialism - to bring beauty into sordid lives by stimulating the spiritual impulse that is latent in every soul?'
Taylor Cadbury concludes her message by remarking that children's spiritual impression was deepened by the influences around them, emphasising the importance of teachers in this work.
A further letter from Howard C. Cooksey is attached to the front of these two documents, thanking Taylor Cadbury for her 'gracious message'. |
| AdminHistory | These papers have been included here alongside Taylor Cadbury's public addresses rather than with her publications as her message to the City of Birmingham Training College relates directly to the content of her earlier public addresses. |