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78 professional training are only one of the essentials. The average woman teacher of Ohio has a Bachelors Degree or is working toward it. Thousands are working for or have received their Masters Degree. Many have Doctorates. Even so, successful teaching demands much more. It demands insight, kindliness, imagination, tolerance, courage, good health, a sense of humor, a personal hunger for knowledge and a constant urge to share this knowledge. Women teachers of Ohio believe that these demands are justified. They believe this because they believe also that an efficient and en- lightened public school system is vital to the preservation of our free and democratic institutions — that good citizenship and good govern- ment cannot he achieved and maintained without sound public edu- cation. We believe that the public school is in reality the foundation stone of our democracy and that the world does move forward, in good truth, “on the feet of little children.”