Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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Zhrcads and Patterns Personality and world culture are the master threads of life. They are mutually creative, so modify each other as they are woven into the patterns of life. Two things are important — the quality of the threads and the patterns into which they are woven. Education has a threefold task — to improve the quality of the threads, to aid in selecting patterns, and to guide the process of weaving. Democracy is vital to each of the three. Emergent world culture had its most meaningful origin in personality, and has become the most promising expression of personality. It is the only field dynamic enough to save for personality the immense achievements of nationalism and to save personality from the dangers inherent in nationalism. Personality and world culture are congenial to the field of human values. It is in this field that current educators in democratic countries seek the most significant educational trends. Democracy walks on two legs — democratic personalities and democratic institu- tions. If either leg is weak, humanity can scarcely hobble along. Educators in a democracy integrate personalities and institutions in democratic processes to achieve human values. May the Class of Ig48 enjoy to the very fullest its creative walk with democracy in the achieve- ment of human values — within the classroom and outside in the broader fields of life! Joseph I. Arnold

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FACULTY And now our faculty . . . the people who lec- tured to us, tested us, laughed with us, despaired of us, and eventually turned us into seniors. May we never forget the ideals they have given us, the example they have set.