Connellsville High School - Coker Yearbook (Connellsville, PA)

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MR HAROLD A SWANK MR. W. E. DOLDE You, as Americans, have been given the right to an opportunity to learn. This is a right to an education in accordance with your ability and a right to pLu'sue that education as far as you can profit from it. It is part of the American belief that education should not end when full time attendance in school ends, but that formal schooling is merely the beginning. The informal schooling given by life itself, through your working with other people and with things, is the factor which will have the greatest bearing on your lives. Graduation from school is a good preparation for beginning that informal education. It must continue through life, for the boy or girl who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is un- educated the day after. The right to learn, however, is matched by the obligation to learn. Failure to use the tools of knowledge to become informed on personal and social matters is a civic waste. You are obligated, therefore, to seek knowledge to the same degree that the state has been obligated to keep open the paths of knowledge for you. It is your fundamental duty to make the most of your faculties, to become as large and as helpful a part of the world as you can. Your own active effort is the important thing, and no school buildings, no books, no teachers, no lessons learned by heart will justify your failing with this self education. This school expects that you will live up to your highest standard and do your highest duty to yo1u'selves. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler once stated that there were five tests of the evidence of education- Correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue, refined and gentle manners, the result of fixed habits of thought and action, sound standards of appreciation of beauty and of worth, and a character based on those standards, power and habit of reflectiong and efficiency or the power to do. Many in the class of 1950 may now consider their education completed. This is far from true for education is a life time process, and mastering the five tests in a task worthy of continuous effort. Above all, resolve to continue your education. Finally, strive to be resourceful. The real art of life consists in finding out what is the question to be solved. The person who finds out what the problem to be solved is is the man who really makes the contributions to- life. There is only one thing which will train the human mind in resourceful- ness and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself. The only thing that is worth having is that which one gets by his own exertion, and what one gets is proportionate to thc effort he puts into it. MISS MILDRED REITER The future depends on you, the youth of America. Man has delved into science and created a hydrogen bomb and other articles of pure science. Your work is to develop social science that people may learn how to use these discoveries for the improvement of mankind. Science has learned how to control many forms of matter but man has learned little how to control himself. Unless you learn how to control yourself and learn how to teach controls to the individual, society will destroy itself with the tools it has created. We know that where the state controls the individuals humanities are forgotten. It is only when the individual controls himself and the state that democratic ideals and the rule of love can exist. This is your work. No matter if you enter a profession, trade, or housework, you cannot escape this demand upon you. If you do not accept this responsibility, you will leave little in this world for the youth who follow you. 6 Mr. Harold Swank Miss Mildred Reiter