Bay View High School - Oracle Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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The old proverb of the Athenians, Nothing in excess, is still a watchword to the educator of today, for the essence of its truth is enduring. Those who live in a democracy and have undertaken the training of its youth know this full well. They recog- nize the ever-present danger that in providing for all the children of all the people they may sacrifice for the many, opportunities they should offer the few. They cannot in conscience allow those who come to them to be frustrated by struggles to at- tain intellectual standards beyond them, or dulled by never being challenged to mental effort. For all there must be both the discipline and the pleasure of learning. Bay View has experimented for some time with a two-channel approach in various subiects. In math- ematics, for example, parallel courses are given. The one is completely practical, the other ap- proaches the practical through the theoretical. Every course is open to all who qualify for it, and the student chooses in large part on the basis of his interest or his recognized need. Always, as ours is a school in a democracy, there is not culti- vation of intellectual snobbery. The fluidity of the American social structure still continues here. 1

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DR. BERNHARD C. KORN, Principal