Normandy High School - Saga Yearbook (Normandy, MO)

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Courtesy of Missouri Historical Society clucation For Still sturdily supporting the aspirations of a pioneer thirst for knowledge and a passion for self-government at- tained through learning are the hand-hewn beams of edu- eational progress. Ever stressing the ideas of strong indi- xidual effort and direrft personal aehiexement. both the for- mal and informal phases ol' Anieriean sehooling in the elassroom. laboratory, and manual shop have developed the latent abilities and powers of students. As demoeraey strikes its preluding ehord with a major aeeent upon edueation, edueators and students alike sus- tain the Vibrations of a demoeratie theme and attempt to 1-ounterpoint it with the so:-ial and physical movements of life. The freedom of opportunity is made possible hy the freedom of equal at-eess to knowledgeg a liberal education 1-an therefore. he obtained through the mere exertion of initiative and personal toil. Creative impulses hate nexer disappeared from our na- tive heritage. and the c-ultixation and productivity of these powers under a systematit' training have produeed the progress and building of our nation xshieh is fittingly em- bodied in the liiads Bridge, one of the Hrst spans at-ross the great Mississippi waterway.

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Book One American Ideals