Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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friendships in school experiences In class, dissection of crayHsh opens naturefs secrets of life,s processes. Young historians locate territories of the past. junior weathermen record daily weather

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Students reach out for knowledge Study hall occupants cut the quantity of Work to be finished at home. Complex algebraic equations occupy large board space and demand comprehensive thinking. Sports, clubs, convos, and Held trips are worth-while extras, but the orbit of the school program still revolves around a classroom nucleus. As a part of daily in-school Work pupils read texts, compile notebooks, and discuss their ideas. Under the guidance of teachers, students scrutinize theories and conduct experiments to confirm these views. Tests periodically measure accomplishments, and grades record progress. World understanding escapes nations be- cause of barriers of prejudice, but in the classroom every student sits side by side to learn together. Though planned only to give knowledge, the public school system acts as the biggest integrating machine in the melt- ing potv society of America. Pattern-making boys design various types of projects while also learning a skilled trade.

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Business machines class acquaints girls with office systems and Card cataloging guides researchers in their methods of filing. information quest. - American Observers inform American problems pupils of significant current events. Work, fun, achievement mix into an The work of a teacher cannot be weighed by the number of parts assembled that day, a percentage of goods he sold, or a time clock of the hours on the job. A teacheris success or failure illuminates itself more subtly in minds and lives. In lessons teachers can in- still patriotism, fairness, and logic, While courtesy, dependability, and industriousness seep unnoticed into student behavior. Anderson High School has qualified teachers to make available' more than 80 academic subjects. A total of 78 members make up the ll departments for a student- teacher ratio of 20 to l. Faculty, realizing the strength and importance of their inilu- ence, employ great self-discipline and con- duct their lives under the microscope of the school board, parents, and community. In school, as much as in the home, lifetime- lasting thoughts, ideas, and opinions of youth are formed with the assistance of teachers. Wise and understanding instructors save many juveniles from the path of delinquency, groom scores of youth for vocations, and set hard-to-reach examples for the future genera- tion to measure their lives by.