Central High School - Interlude Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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l THE INTERLUDE 17 established upon a broad basis of culture. A well grounded knowledge of subject-matter is coupled with a true understanding of objectives and intelligent ability to make all branches of the curriculum serve a common purpose. Teaching today functions less and less as subject teaching and more and more as counseling. These two improvements have called into being new techniques and new tools too numerous to elaborate on here. Theory no longer predominates. Students learn by practical application in the class room, and in the laboratory. They know that it is best to make their first inevitable mis- takes in the schoolroom where kindly counsel will ease the sting and disappointment. Perhaps the thing that stands out in greatest contrast to the older school is the greater time allotment to extra-curricular activities, Here additional opportunity is given to develop morally, mentally, and socially. Students today enjoy privileges never known before in the history of education. You, as parents, know that your guidance is being supplemented and augmented by the school. The student knows that the greater share of his time is spent in activities de- signed to meet everyone of his needs, if he cares to avail himself of them. We, the members of the January Class of l937, are grateful for all these opportu- nities. On behalf of the class, we wish to thank the school board, principal, and faculty for their inspiration and eXpert guidance in aiding us to take advantage of these improved opportunities. Thus prepared by a progressive system of secondary education, we step out into a progressive world, The Valedictory THE HIGH SCHOOL OF TOMORROW Elizabeth Owens Progress is the fundamental law of life. As we contemplate the amazing achieve- ments. in education brought about in the past, the thought comes to us-what further improvements may be looked for in order that the education program may be better adapted to the complexities of the future. Education for living we believe will be the great aim. Such a goal will necessitate education of the student's whole personality. In the past, cultivation of the intellect alone has proved insufficient and unsatisfactoryg the physical health, and the spiritual side of the individual are now being given greater consideration: and as we look into the future, we can seethat there will be even greater need for more complete development of these phases of the individual. Another need will be to help the student ind himself, to discover his abilities and talents, and then to develop them, so that he may better serve himself and his fellow men, He must have a knowledge of the factual and appreciation subjects of the curricu- lum, since a good citizen must be an informed oneg but since the problem of leisure time becomes more and more important in a changing industrial age, the school system must enlarge its social program-developing clubs, athletics, music, and hobbies. In addition to the present idea of helping the student become a socially minded, well- adjusted person, and advising the course of study to be pursued, the aim of the educational program of the future must also be to help the student find his gainful occupation. The school then should contact with professions, business, and industry. A linking of class- room study with actual part-time work may be a means of accomplishing this. The majority must be made to think through doing. To quote Dr. Herbert Scho- field of England, The new education must be dynamic and practical: so broad must be its sweep that all, not a few, achieve the results of its discipline. Tonight we have time not to portray a picture of the school of the future, but merely to suggest what the principal aims of the school should be. As we, for the January Class of 1937, bid farewell to our faculty and to the school, we desire also to say that we appreciate the opportunities and training we have received, and express thanks for our happy years in Central Senior High.

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THE INTERLUDE