Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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ifju -Cdlcffflsfz'HEICj-Hfllf'MILIJToflfNY-cflCollDEIXiY- f A, -, x., . 'ld ,,,,.,,,,.,,,,, ,......,..,...T.2-'unIZTLf'l .l. 'i T., 'L'fTfZZ'7f'h Tf T 'if'1f 0 5 The aim of the Scholastic Department of Castle Heights Military Academy is not only to prepare a boy for college but to train him in those habits of Aims study, industry, and perseverance which will enable him to remain in college after he has entered. Our work in the class-room is aimed not only to teach subject-matter acceptably but to develop character, as well, for no boy succeeds in college without a firm foundation in both. We accept at Castle Heights only those boys who give promise of meeting our moral, intellectual and physical standards. There is no minimum age requirement for a boy to enter Castle Heights. The Junior School embraces the grades from the third through the eighth. Age Four years of high school work are offered in the Senior School with an additional post- graduate year, which is of great advantage to the boy too young for college responsibilities or who should be better prepared to hold his own there. While our four-year course, with the occasional fifth year, is admirably adapted to give the boy his secondary school education in conjunction with the building of a sound body and the development of character, there is no question but that even a single year here is of great advantage. We should, of course, prefer to enroll all our students in their freshman year and carry them through to graduation, but the many one, two and three-year students who have profited to such a great extent by what Castle Heights has offered in the past, indicate the desirability of sending your boy here, even for a brief course. an A-www 1 ri Wg'-:..1.,,i j ....,. i are well appointed and attzactive. Lavatory, steam heat, electric light, single folding beds, and abundant sun-light. A real home for nine months. The student at Castle Heights really gets personal attention. lt is probably generally knovvn that hundreds of boys in the public school Personal Attention systems are willing to study, and do study, but fail to make passing grades. lt is possible that lack of proper classification originally, and personal attention and re-classification later, is the real cause of their trouble. Castle Heights will put your boy where he belongs and where he will do the best work of which he is capable. There will be no attempt to hasten a boyis graduation to suit an ambitious parent nor to delay his graduation to indulge a lazy boy. His work is checked daily and weekly, and a written report from the Head- master goes to the parent monthly. The matter ofmaking the system fit the boy rather than the boy fit the system is up for continuous study, conference and decision. We do not allow a boy to continue to fail. There are many factors in starting a boy toward success with his books, which are not always taken into consideration by the parent. Une of these is the per- sonality of the boy's roommate. Another matter is the various lengths of time it takes different boys to do the same amount of vvork. lhen, again, some boys have difficulty with some subjects but not with others. All boys are not equally ambitious and studious. All bays are not equally intelligent. We are constantly working and studying to meet these problems in the most modern, successful way, and our efforts have met with marked success in the vast majority of instances. Until the remedy is found, special attention is given the attitude and work of every cadet who is not passing in his subjects. The boy is encouraged in the class-room and during the study hour. The instructors are patient and persistent. -fhey interview boys outside of study hours, explain matters to them, and help them. The boy who asks for extra assistance always receives it and there is no tutoring fee involved. lf the boy, for any reason, does not ask for help he needs, this help is given of the teacheris own volition during certain assigned hours whenever the boy fails in a single lesson. practically every good preparatory school devotes considerable attention to teaching boys HOWTO sruuv but it is our Boys Taught How to Study honest belief that we obtain more than the usual degree of success by emphasizing the most modern methods. WE ACTUALLY TEACH BOYS HOW TCD STUDY. Every cadet owns and uses as a text a pamphlet written by the Headmaster of Castle Heights entitled Learning How to Study. This text embodies the most modern methods of learning how to study, how to concentrate, and how to memorize. An earnest effort is made to familiarize every student with these methods and to see that he applies them in his daily