# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S151
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 149

that many Districts have full-time Superintendents of Education
will certainly create an awareness in our congregations of their
responsibility to provide expanded facilities for Christian. ele-

tion.
mentary educs Conclusions

These studies indicate that in the five years from 1951 to 1955
an average of 125 regular men teachers will be required annually
and, in addition, 350 women teachers annually. In the following
25 years only a small increase in demand for men teachers should
be anticipated, while the demand of women teachers will nearly
double. (See Tabulation No. 12.)

These astounding estimates can be more readily accepted if
we realize that at this time 45 regular men teachers and 280 women
teachers are required annually merely to replace losses from the
number of teachers now serving in our parochial schools.

If the effectiveness of our parochial schools is to be maintained,
and even improved, then our teacher training program must have
sufficient capacity to furnish not only better equipped teachers,
but also an increased supply.

IV. RECOMMENDATIONS ON REORGANIZATION
Two basic requirements which Synod must meet successfully,
if its God-given, world-wide opportunities and responsibilities are
to be effectively recognized during the coming decades, are inevi-
tably related to and, under God, dependent upon proper adjustments
in the field of higher education. This conclusion is based upon
a careful appraisal of our Church’s century of experience and a pro-
jection of the extensive statistical data made available to the Board -
for Higher Education. We must plan now to provide: ;
1. An increasing production of professional workers.
2. Facilities for full college training in our Synod’s pre-
ministerial education program.

A major portion of the past five years has been devoted to
intensive study of the problems related to planning specifications
for the addition of a senior college and, simultaneously, for an
increasing volume of adequately trained professional workers. (For
a complete analysis of current college and seminary enrollments
see Exhibit 15.) We are convinced that it will not do to depend.
upon expedient improvisations on past practices. God has ob-
viously given our Synod a broader task, and we must perform it.
We have a new da , and we must master it. We have new con-
ditions, and we must recognize them.

In the course of its detailed studies of many and various
Proposals to meet these educational needs, every known phase of