Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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all MLThn Principals essaqe To the Class of June, 1952: With graduation approaching, this is a good time to follow Walt Whit- man's example and take a backward glance o'er traveled roads. Now as you look back over your course in Tech, you can easily distinguish the whole pattern. You can see the complementary sections of the arts and the sciences, you can discern the balancing of technical theory by first-hand experience. Both hand and brain have undergone cultivation, and as far as the fundamentals are concerned, you are equipped to think, to plan, and to do. By this time, too, your eyes should be open wide to the immensity of man's intellectual horizon. Even in the single fields in which you intend to specialize, you realize now that education is a process that never ends. It is a challenging paradox that in his candid self-appraisal the educated man is the man who is never really educated, for he gladly accepts the rigors of a lifetime of learning, evaluating, discarding, and relearning. To put all this another way, I think that you are off to a good start for success in the briskly paced, swiftly changing world of today. Naturally, you are in a hurry to grow up, so that you can enjoy the independence and assume the responsibilities of manhood, and thereby take your places in this world. And just as naturally, as a way of speeding up the process of growing up, you look around and select traits, attitudes, mannerisms from men who have come under your observation and who have, as you see it, what it takes. This has been going on as long as boys have been eager to be men Qand when have they not?j, and it can be a very good thing. In a sense, all education is imitation. But the point to remember is this: when you choose a man as a model, you are paying him a very great honor. Be sure that you do not honor someone who is unworthy of you. You are, of course, familiar with the old saying: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It is no testimonial to your good sense to Hatter someone whom you ought to despise. Not all adult ways of thinking, of talking, of doing things are admirable simply because they are adult. Insolent lawlessness, discourtesy, raucousness, deliberate contempt for the rights and feelings of others, an asinine indif- ference to learning and to ideas -in the man, as well as in the boy, these and similar traits are the unmistakable stamp of the fool and the lout. Furthermore, these traits are not really adult at all. They are essentially infantile, and they scream aloud that the men who show them have never fully grown up. Look rather for integrity, courage, dignity, a clean, robust sense of humor, love of fair play, ambition, understanding and perseverance. Men who display these qualities are the ones who really have what it takes. These are the men to keep your eyes on. Get to know them as well as you can, pattern yourselves after them, and you will be the richer for it. Sincerely, , Wfgam pagaf

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