Central Collegiate Institute - Analecta Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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tf-a’iesuta ' id ’’yHERE is a great deal of concern about education these days—and rightly so. Perhaps I am merely repeating expres¬ sions which you have heard before. In any event they are matters which have been of some concern to you. and from graduation on, will be of supreme impor¬ tance to all of us. You may not be aware of it yet, but you are graduating from a High School with a very enviable record in Alberta. This does not imply, however, that your education has finished or even has really started, in the true meaning of the word. The High Schools, by themselves, can¬ not produce educated men and women. They can only produce men and women who have the basic tools with which to acquire an education. Our schools are obliged to train, rather than to tducate. They cannot inculcate into their pupils that cense of values which is the hallmark of a true education. It is possible to go right through High School with high marks and to emerge with little or no appreciation of the values upon which our civilization is built. A teacher of New York University recently remarked concerning the average American college graduate: “He is a specialist. He knows his field, but he is not an educated man. Watch him at play and you know at once that he has never been initiated into the graces of creative leisure. For we Americans are still the most over-taught but under-educated nation in the world.’’ Honest people will admit, I think, that the above applies with equal force to most High School and University graduates in Canada. Many people insist, however, that education means simply going through a particular school system. If this be true, how can we explain the tragic cases of Germany and Japan? Both countries had elaborate systems of State education. Japan, in particular, claimed the lowest illiteracy rate in the world. Yet they became bullies, individually and nationally, and school graduates regarded aggression and sometimes extreme cruelty as normal and honorable forms of behaviour. It is, of course, easy to criticize and disclaim, but difficult to mould and construct. So it is with education. I cannot define education, but most of us can recognize an educated man when we see one, and we recognize him par- (Continued on Page 26) 4

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Vol. 32. June, 1947 No. 1 Published by the Students of Central Collegiate Institute CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA

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Go+tte+vti Valedictories ... Graduates . Undergraduates Alumni . Activities . Athletics . “Greeks’’ . Awards . Cadets . Advertising . 10-11 15 27 49 53 71 105 119 127 133 Candids by the Analecta Photography Staff appear throughout the Year Book. Cover by John Fisher.