St Francis Preparatory School - San Fran Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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-..-wwf. .-.1 -..... . . . d-ffl1Q-I,l.Hs1 These truths are self-evident. The complexities of modern society have engendered a change in the methods of education from those originally instituted by the pedagogues of ancient times. ln its stricter connotation education is now only the beginnning of learning. Today it is easy to fall before the onslaught of success propa- ganda which would have us believe that education is unsuccessful unless it brings a decimal point in the correct place, But, despite this, we have reached an intellectual maturity which enables us to distinguish between school and education, and the benefits of each, ln our cognizance of education as a vital organism, not confined to a building or a geographical location, we find a con- solation: school and education are not synonymous. ln schools that truly fulfill their social function by being preparatory , we do not find secularization-the sacred cow of secularism-occupying a position which would endanger their ultimate objectives, Knowledge, Cardinal Newman declares, is an end in itself, lt is also the key to truth which is an end of man. Thus must we recognize liberal education as the blueprint of man's intellectual destiny. Rewards of this comprehensive pursuit prove to us that the True is not the treasure at the end of a select avenue nor is it the barricade that deadends our learning at the end of the specialist's street. Hence, the nature of a formal education must have the quality of variety, the strength to grow and be uninhibited lest those being educated suffer from an intellectual draught, To believe that learning can be derived from our social insti- tutions alone is as fallacious as it is to believe that our powers of reasoning cease to function when removed from the proximity of the blackboard. The senses with which man is divinely endowed are constantly stockpiling new sensation for the intellect to catalogue and store. And this work is never ended since all life is one experi- ence after another with the great and the minutiae of the universe. The appetite of man for the Good and the Beautiful is also fed by education, of which the school is merely the beginning. To know, to understand, to comprehend is the desire which drives man onward toward these goals, and a true appreciation of the ultimate knowledge gathered is only attained when this quest has been given the necessary direction. To educate oneself is therefore a lifelong task. School, then, is never an end in itself and it is not without thought that the successful completion of a given course of study is called a commencement. lt is but a beginning-an introduction to learn- ing which will serve to organize man's search and to end his groping. It is not difficult to visualize the school as the direction given to man in the formative years which will guide him toward his ultimate goal, reunion with his Creator, through the wise and timely use of the talents so carefully given him by God. Education in its overall sense abets man in effecting this reunion and in truth the school can be said to be the essential element in this building for education. Ed Ruschin, Charles O'Shea, Paul Dolan, Harry Whitton and George Boltrnan, staff members, at annual Catholic Yearbook Conference at Cardinal Hayes High School. sm if s 5 Y ifj WAYNE WISDOM Associate Editor l 2 l x s K

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Too often the carefree high school student of today becomes, almost literally, tomorrow the bewildered work- ing young man. Unaware of the vast chasm that separates the schoolroom from the business world, he tumbles, diploma in hand but with nothing else to bulwark his fall, into the pit that is proverbially the outside world. Ill- prepared for life by educators who have subjectively in- stilled into him the idea that he is a world unto himself, the former student, his thin veneer of learning chipped and torn by the plunge into the outside world, gropes in vain for the uplifting guidance and direction he should have received during his formative school years. Not so the St. Francis Preparatory School graduate. Thoroughly grounded in the doctrine of his faith and carefully instructed in the precepts of morality, the St. Francis Prep student learns, before he graduates, to base his acquired facts upon these truths. Thus fortified he is equipped to weigh wisely and to think intelligently, The result is a way of life which, like the judiciously planned and skilfully constructed building, stands as a testament for others to admire and imitate. For such are sound PAUL PROSSEDA foundations-whether they be the substructure of lofty Edlf0f'in'Chlef edifices or the basis of true knowledge-that they sum- mon forth more noble creations. On nothing less has the wisdom of the ages been based. - . . - - - .' ' ,- ..,... ,P1.'.l I lt ,.,. ., .,l- 2 ,SDI iP1P,l,'.X'l' l I Pl I. I i JOHN MALAGRAPH THOMAS TAYLOR MICHAEL CAGLIANENE BLAISE MARCHESE Sports Editor Associate Editor Picture' Editor Associate Editor l3