Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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| From the Latin intellectus, the ability to reason, perceive or understand. he word intellectual usually conjures images of time-honored thinkers such as Socrates, Locke, Aristotle or Einstein. Actually, everyone has a God-given intellect, and uses that intellect, well or badly, every day. By way of television, radio, newspapers, magazines, speeches, books and conversation, people are subjected to a continuous deluge of contrasting and conflicting ideas about world affairs, government and politics, edu- cation, child rearing, sex and marriage and, not least of all, about religion. With little knowledge and a mea- ger ability to discern the right from the wrong and the true from the false, many fall prey to the loudest and most persistent propagandists. We can save ourselves from error only by developing the strength and clarity of mind to rightly judge issues for ourselves. The primary goal of Ambassador College is to teach students to develop their ability to discern the true and right way from the false, and to use self-discipline to actually live and do that which is right. Such a process in the building of character requires mind power — intellect, ability to absorb knowledge, to reason, to think, to devise, to draw conclusions, to will and to act. Knowledge alone won’t do the trick. An author on college education offered this insight: “Facts, concepts, principles and ideas can be extraordinarily useful tools. However, if you merely collect and store them, facts and ideas are pointless.” Since the day it was founded, Ambassador has rec- ognized the need for balance between book learning and extracurricular activities, between work and recre- ation, between ideas and practical experience. One doesn’t become educated by hearing and learning only, but by thinking and doing. An Ambassador student, A FUND OF FACTS, concepts, principles and ideas can be extraordinarily useful tools. What is more important, however, is what one builds with those tools. therefore, is at home in the world of ideas as well as the world of practical, hands-on experience. Jonas Salk put facts and concepts to work, and to- day polio is an almost forgotten word. Thomas Edison turned his ideas into reality, and kept people from groping about in the dark. Not everyone can be a Salk or an Edison, but ev- eryone has the capacity to acquire, discern and use knowledge for the benefit and well-being of all. Am- bassador College is committed to seeing that students acquire and use knowledge well.O THE PRIMARY GOAL of Ambassador College is to develop one’s ability to discern the true and right way from the false, and to use self-discipline to actually live and do that which is right. Such character requires mind power.