Roosevelt High School - Teddy Memory Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

Q0 I Scarcely any accomplishments of worth are achieved without hard work. There are always people who hope to revolutionize some existing condition through a "happy idea" without expenditure of either mental' on physical effort. Only geniuses, if any, do things that way. Geniuses are exceedingly rare. Yet, there are many of us with ability enough to do big things through diligent, patient, and persistent labor. Education is a most necessary part in the preparation for doing things. It also is acquired only through hard and persistent work. Sometimes there is an inclination in modern education to avoid the hard work by substituting more interesting and entertaining subjects for the dryland uninteresting ones. My personal experience leads me to believe that those subjects which at the time seemed the hardest and most uninteresting have since proved to be the most valuable. , School education can be likened to the learning of the alphabet in the education of a small child. Learning the alphabet is drudgery, yet without knowing the alphabet the child cannot read to acquire an education. Like- wise many subjects taught in school are at the time a drudgery which later prove a most valuable preparation for reading, understandingly, the more interesting developments in advanced thought. - To the boy and girl in high school who wish to be prepared for the enjoyment of a fuller and more interesting life, I would recommend greater diligence in acquiring these seemingly uninteresting subjects., MWZW af ,nfl ff o, f it v ,xi -'X L Q ,Y-N