Armstrong High School - Resume Yearbook (Armstrong, IL)

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f-s X N V ill Il 'iIF'i-HW mln!-P13 ann Qlgnlh Q ll II ll ll IA -2-1-X . --4 rnklronmr A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION by Mr. fllflxffy Does it pay to spend time and money in securing an education? This is a question concerning which there is a great varying of opinion. The Deople opposed to education are rapidly becoming fewer and fewer in num ber. People are beginning to see the need and to some extent understand the value of an education. Education is the production of useful changes in the lives of human beings. It is the mark of civilization. It comprehends all that is worth while in life and spurn those things which have no relation to the better things of life. John Stuart Mills has said, The most valuable thing in this world is man, and the most valuable thing in man is mind. Therefore, it seems to me, if this assertion be true, surely we are engaged in a worth- while work trying to educate people. There is a greater need for education today than ever before. Com- petition is becoming keener and forcing greater preparation in most all the avenues of business. The population of our country is steadily increasing. It is becoming congested in many parts of the country. The land area of the United States is now practically all settled. Uncle Sam has very little land to be given to one almost for the mere asking. The result of these conditions is that the opportunity for expansion has been lessened, and consequently the number of people seeking the same employment has in- creased. There are several agencies: the home, church, and school which aid in the education of our people. The one of which we are a part and with which this article has to deal is the school and particularly the high school. Equal opportunity for all the children of all people is the watchword of the modern high school. The modern high school embodies and reflects the composite spirit that dominates American life, and is at once the most ill u u u ll aria 1924 G ll u n ll u 'll ,An...4u.au

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ul u u n IIT qgurpl, wh flgnlh 9 'u'uV n up p ug' home is in Danville. She came to our High School to teach last October. Her classes will all tell you that she is more than a match for Caesar, Lat- in composition, or any sort of history. Miss Alexander attended the Indianapolis High School and was graduated from there in 1919. She spent two yearsat Rockford Woman's College, and finished her education at Depauw in 1923. 'Q 7710- madf NJ QUkt!f lUP fm- mdav, ur hop tlzgyrf mmhfd. 1 W .n n n IFHKII Q 1924 lar' nr 'eng-::ui...n ...4.--,...

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W-wr-t u+-u cn -'uc-Q 1 9 2 4 Qgnign F I'- 1l u LMT purple anhgnlh flfllll 'll in , genuinely democratic and the most thoroughly representative of the insti- tutions yet devised and established by American genius. Our ideals are shifting from the vague, general, externally imposed standards of mental discipline and college preparatory to those translatable into twentieth cen- tury individual and sicial requirements, sound healthg the ability to use the intellect upon the problems of ordinary social, civic, and commercial life, taste and the observance of the demand for the beautiful in both per- sonal and community concerns 5 a civic and moral consciousness which up- holds, and contributes to the community ethics upon which social progress depends, and a religious sense which assures loyalty to a permanent system of values. If our one and a half million adolescents now in our high schools acquire these things our nation's future is assured. If they do not, it is doomed to decay and fall. The realization of the above-mentioned values will necessitate constant, patient labor and possibly some changes in our educational regime. The supervisory programme ahead requires that we work out and put in opera- tion a system of general principles of adolescent pedagogy which is clearly based on the problem araising out of the age of the hibh school student and his likely participation in the activities of his community. The best teachers possible to secure are none too good to teach our boys and girls Men and women who are in this work because they are really interested in it-not because it offers a small salary, or can be used as a stepping stone to othcr professions. Personally, I will welcome the day when require- ments nor teachers are so high and exacting that such teachers for para- sites? will be crowded out of our good work. The officers of our public school system should be men and- women who hold these offices, not be-- cause of the popularity, frestige, and power that may be theirs, but be- cause they are true exponents of education. They should visit the schools, talk wth the teachers and supervisors, read current literature by the lead- ers of the educational wor'd today on :choo's and the problems thereof. If such were done, these persons cou'd possess hrst hand informat'on on some of the rrobfems with which they must reckon, instead of guessing, or mere- ly cuoting what they have heard. People who haven't time to do these things to some cxtfnt at least. havcn't time to till the office as it should hc Flccl, rcr lava they the right to expect the continued support of the tax-- paycrs of the community. Fy ALL working together the boys and girls will have better schools and the status of our community will he raised. So let us see to it that we are doing crr drtv first lsefore we cr'ticize another Ever remembering the meaningful phrase, A House divided against itself cannot stand. ll ll ll rl