Missouri State University - Ozarko Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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. . . So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts, Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds: Whiclm pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor: Who, busied in his majesty, surveys Tae singing masons building roofs of gold, Tne civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Tneir heavy burdens at his narrow gate, Tne sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum, Delivering o'er to executors pale Tne lazy yawning drone. King Henry Ike Fiffh-Act I, Scene 2 l12l

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CHARLES A. LEE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Again we have taken stock of our public school program and have concluded that it is not enough. We are entering upon a third period of expansion of the concept of the State's obligation for the education of its people. No longer will the school be content to train the child from the age of six to the age of fourteen, and then to the age of eighteeng the school will be organized to lead in the training of the individual before he is of legal school age, and during all the years after he has completed the regular school course. People will return to school from time to time in order to learn whatever they want to know so long as they live. ' It goes without saying that the school of today is not organized to meet these added and complex responsibilities. It must reorganize itself to meet the new demands of a radically changed social order, or the social order will take over the job of reorganization. Either the school people must expand the public school program or they will be com- pelled to relinquish their leadership. -Extract from message of Charles A. Lee, State Superintendent of Schools. l14l