Audubon High School - Le Souvenir Yearbook (Audubon, NJ)

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1' I Mr. George W. Neel IIEHIEI-ITIUN TO MR. NEEL, WHOSE GENIALITY I-IAS WON FOR HIM THE AFFECTION OF' OUR CLASS, WE DEDICATE WITH PRIDE THE 1940 EDITION OF LE SOUVENIR.

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William L. Fidler, B.S. in Ed, Ed, M., Ed, D, Supervising Principal :bn W2 eddage Democracy means equality of opportunity opportunity for each individual to make the best ol what capacities he has Those capacities, however, are widely difteren as COIHIIIOI1 observation and many types ol tests prove If this be true there are many obligations that education needs to assume in the development both ot equality ot opportunity for the many and leadership tor those able to exercise it Education must transmit what is best in the social heritage ihe experience and values men live by lt must enable youth io acquire the skills, the cultural resources the power of thinking sufficient to live in and adlust to a rapidly changing environment. It must produce a citizenry intelligent enough to follow the leader, not the demagogue or the special pleader Education must also train the intellectually advantaged in the techniques that will make it possible lor mankind to exert an increasing measure of social control over life in all its phases. This means, of course, not only that we educate others but that we keep educating ourselves lt is easy to get ones social and economic principles from pre1udiced sources It is not easy to seek out the serious lournals and government reports. There is no tabloid path to a college degree o also the power ol purposeful knowledge will not be drawn from the nickel weekly. in