Dixon High School - Chanticleer Yearbook (Dixon, CA)

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Athletics

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To the WChanticleerW - X The hours of play are perhaps the most important in a boy's life. These hours of recreation can be either constructive or destructive. Constructive recreation means better boys today, better citizens tomorrow. Destructive recreation means going the other way, and if a boy travels far enough along this path he comes at last to bad companionship, lawlessness, and crime. Between the two is no middle ground. A boy at play goes forward or else he goes backward - he never stands still in those formative years. Character is caught, not taught. Young people don't learn character out of textbooks or by listening to lectures in classrooms If they did, education would be the simplest matter on earthg for after all the real end of education is not Latin or Mathematics or any special form of knowledge whatever, but character. The great teachers of any generation are not writers of textbooks. They are men, and women, too, who are able to reach straight through to the imagination and the heart and the soul of young people around them and shape the clay of youth while it is soft to the touch. Therefore, sports properly taught in high school and college sows the seeds of clean, healthy, vigorous, and intelligent citizenship in the most fruitful soil - the soil of the formative years of youth. The worth of that contribution can never be measured. With every good wish for the future success of the nChantic1eerW. ' Sincerely, W Ghcmticleer 1.