Clarion University of Pennsylvania - Sequelle Yearbook (Clarion, PA)

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CLARION THE 1963 1964

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-LIBRARY CLARION STATE COLLEGE CLARION. PA. 1

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PRESIDENT JAMES GEMMELL If as Emerson wrote, It Is the eye which makes the horizon, then surely in a free society it is education which makes the eye. Education, above all, is a drawing out; it is not a cramming in. The trouble with most levels of formal education is that they have too much respect for information which so often becomes quickly obsolescent and too little for ideas, without which all information and meaningless. The difficulty is that no one can put ideas into our heads. We must put them there ourselves. A good education, however, can generate conditions conducive to the discovery of ideas, can nurture their growth, and can help us to find rational bases for them. The central task of education, therefore, is to aid man in his search for ideas that may be useful to him in his attempts to deal with chaotic bodies of new materials. This is the goal toward which Clarion students and faculty strive. I trust that your endeavors have beer, rewarded, and I covet for you the continued excit- ment that awaits you in the world of ideas. JAMES GEMMELL, President