Carthage High School - Carthaginian Yearbook (Carthage, MO)

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. W, . -s. .,,. ' . ffl-f -L-Y-If f ': 4' 2: -' f ' 115' -'L , :T'1.:n-'-' Superintvnhrnt 31. 111. Qlamphell The present economic distress offers a challange regarding the program of edu- cation. The program of education must be maintained and constantly improved, ever recognizing the fundamental concept of achievement as expressed in terms of equality of opportunity for all citizens. America is conscious of the need for economy. School budgets have received drastic reductionsg schools have been compelled to carry ever increasing loadsg thousands of school children have seen their schools closed downg the salaries of teach- ers and school employees are in arrearsg school services have been eliminatedg and in every state, youth is facing interrupted or denied education. The friends of education must look to the leadership of schools and the leadership of society in combatting the hazard which looms as a green-eyed monster intent upon carnage and pillage. There is imminent danger in irrational budget-makingg there is peril in accepting the program of certain anti-social forces which would see education lagg there is risk in reducing educational support below the point where educational activities become stagnant and the educational body emaciated. The true friend of education insists that the child of today receive his educational opportunity now. To postpone the rights of childhood means an impoverished and stunted development, and in the words of a foremost educator,- We cannot put edu- cational opportunity in storage for the duration of the depression and catch up with it later on. The program of education must be maintained. W9 W

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. fllkv' fmf'-.25-'-f ,,.-.,......., . .W f..-.B -If inn- .1-nntznd-z. 1.-1-4-Ja,-n-bt .nuns-is l a ,EW G t a . I do not know that I could make en- tirely clear to van outsider the pleasure I have in teaching. I had rather earn my living by teaching than in any other way. In my mind, teaching is not mere- ly a life work, la, profession, an occupa- tion, a struggle, it is a passion. I love to teach. I love to teach as a painter loves to paint, as a musician loves to play, as a singer loves to sing, as a strong man rejoices to run .a race. Teaching is an art-an art so great and so difficult to master that a man or woman can spend a long life at it without realizing much more than his limitations and mistakes and his distance from the ideal. But the main aim of my happy days has been to become a good teacher, just as every architect wishes to be a good architect and every professional poet strives toward perfection. -William Lyon Phelps -8.

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