Technical High School - Tech Tiger Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Technology, Bait dae SHOP — AERONAUTICS RADIO — SCIENCE “It is certainly not the province of technical high schools to develop special skill by practice along narrow lines. The aim is breadth of training combined with effectiveness. All the older studies of proved value are retained and their value increased by giving them vital relations with practical life. —Charles Warner. This statement was made and published almost fifty years ago by Mr. Warner when he was principal of Tech. Even he, probably, did not realize that in less than half a century technology would save the world and the culture of past ages for civilized man. The place of Technology in the world of today has been so ably stated by our principal, Mr. Kiley, that we are using a paragraph directly from his bulletin on ‘‘Purposes of the Courses of Study’. “A high school education based almost en- tirely upon contemplation of the past will not place students in commanding positions for the future. Boys and girls who want to live better than we do now will study the past to know its heritage of wisdom and attainment, but that is not all. They will want to explore the nature of

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Gssembly ASSEMBLY AND LIBRARY When the notice goes out that an assembly has been scheduled, Techites rejoice. Here in our audi- torium, every aspect of school life is demonstrated by the students. Music, home economics, art, sci- ence, drama — all come to the stage and lecture platform to give new and richer experience to both participants and audience. The cumulation of all the years of man’s thought has been gathered into our school library and is available for every student not only during school time, but for outside reading, too. An outstanding collection of Technical books and catalogues and an ever-growing reference and leisure-reading ma- terial makes Tech's library a very center of the thought and purpose of the school. 23

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the world and the possibilities of every promising idea with new and revealing instruments. They will want to make ideas of proven worth into useful things with workshops and materials, tools and machinery, intelligent labor, and abundant power. They will want to distribute new knowl- edge and products widely and know how to use them well. They will want more wealth and better services. Young men and young women who are to be ready for the great projects in transporta- tion, communication, industrial production and social improvement will want a vision of the world transformed by sound ideas used with technical skill and understanding. “The elements of technical instruction which cultivate this vision are: learning by doing, accu- rate reporting of observations, experience with precision instruments, drill in scientific method, applied mathematics, reading and writing, me- chanical drawing to get ideas made into things, use of hand-operated and power-driven ma- chines, the incorporation of beauty into products, and the adoption of improved methods and ma- terials for meeting ordinary needs. “Technical High School hopes that every boy and girl will have the ideals, the strength and the competence not only to live righteously, but to prosper by serving well in a nation of free enterprise.” Wer