Arcata High School - Advance Yearbook (Arcata, CA)

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Katherine Asher Mabel Briscoe H. C. Christensen Eva Chamberlin Shirley H. Russell Niue

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Straight Elalk with the Ehitnrn. The graduating class of the Arcata High School this year numbers 18. County School Superintendent Under- wood informs me that in all the High Schools of the County last year the number was 96, 60 girls and 36 boys. For the same period there graduated from the eighth grade 192 girls and 199 boysg and the attendance in the first grade totaled 501 girls and 608 boys. These figures may safely be taken as an average, since for many years our population has remained about stationary. In round numbers they show that one out of- four who en- ter the public school graduates from the eighth grade and only one in elev- en from High School. Also that the percentage of losses is far greater among the boys than the girls. Many people will say that a gram- mar school course is sufficient to properly .mature an average citizen, but I must respectfully contend that even if all the pupils who enter the public school pass the eighth grade, instead of one-fourth of them, as shown by Superintendent Under- wood's figures, a High School educa- tion is necessary both for the contin- ued and proper development of the mind and for the preparation of the individual to take his place in the af- fairs of the nation. When a pupil leaves the eighth grade he is scarcely more than a child, for he has not had enough prac- tice in thinking and reasoning inde- pendent of the teacher's help and sug- gestion. This is realized by every girl or boy who leaves grammar school and enters the High School. It is here that he gains the ability to think logically. Without this train- ing he cannot be a satisfactory citizen. Not only that, but the beauty and in- finite richness of literature, which broadens the mind, and furnishes it with lofty ideals, remains to him a closed door forever. For him Shakes- peare is known only by name 5 and Browning, Tennyson, Lowell, Emer- son and scores of other literary mast- ers have never lived. Without the light which comes from even an elementary knowledge of logic, higher mathe- matics, and history, refined by rhetoric and training in orderly methods of thinking, which we acquire from the debate, how can the ten out of eleven, and more especially the three out of four, become capable citizens? Or are we to rely on the good common sense of the American people, which candidates tell us just before election we have in such abundance, rather than upon the enlightenment that a suitable education would bestow on our embryo voting kings-and queens, also, in California, by grace of our last legislature? In a representative form of govern- ment such as ours, the majority of its citizens should be well educated, because a democracy depends upon the intelligence of the masses for its preservation. Widespread ignorance is the parent of prejudice, supersti- tion, poverty and bondage. This was fully realized by those who gave the impetus to, and furthered the growth and extension of our educational sys- tem. Prior to 1830 much had devel- oped in the line of education, but only in a private way, and those alone who had means could profit by it. How- Eleven