Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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History I IS Experience the best teacher — or orily the costliest? Does a two-year old child learn better from experience, or from teaching with proper discipline, the danger of running headlong Into a traffic-heavy boulevard in front of on- rushing automobiles? Man, allowed free moral agency, has chosen to learn how to live and organ- ize his civilization by his own ideas and experience— rejecting his Maker ' s re- vealed instruction. So listen, first, to the VOICE OF EX- PERIENCE. IF human ideas, theories, desires tried by experience is the better way, the chronicle of 6,000 years of man ' s efforts to find peace, comforts, pleasures, happiness, ought to teach the present generation THE WAY to these desired ends. But we meet only disillusionment here. True, the lesson of experience has been written— in human pain and anguish, in failures and frustrations, in human blood and death. It has brought us to our present hopeless plight. But the lesson has not been learned! Experience has been a most costly teacher. But humanity, paying exces- sively for the instruction, refuses to learn. Human nature always has resented RIGHT WAYS, even when experience has demonstrated the evil y Tl results of wrong ways. v 2

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a » 0m In spite of the lessons taught through thousands of years of historical experience, man is still unable to live in peace. It is only through the sleep of death that many find freedom from the slavery of enforced bondage.

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- i. J iZ ■ J ' , ; ; - ' ■- ,i -; ' •» ' ' •. ' ■ ' ■ ' ■ ' •j- ' -- ' ■ ' ■•- ■ ' .■, , .- ' (J ' ' ' ' ■f : ' , . -fl ' l ' l 7% ? -■ A critically wounded police officer and a youth in tnanacles epitomize ttie ctiao ' state of modern education. Its liypocritical pragmatism and shifting-sand theories have lead to wide-spread disillusionment and violent unrest.