Climax High School - Viking Yearbook (Climax, MN)

Page 23 text:

to gain a higher education. We will keen on learniro whether we realize it or not. We will learn by expel!-. ience and through associating with other people. There are many ways in which we can add to our education durw ing our spare time. We may read educational writings, see educational movies, attend lectures and public meets ings sponsored for educational purposes. Hobbies, such as studying the life cycle and history of insects, birds and animals are very educational. Stamp collecting may also be an educational hobby. There are many other ways of expanding our education. So our high school educat- ion is just the basis for our life education. Our grad- uation is not the completion of our education. It is just the beginning. Lee Schieber: THE OBJECT OF AN EDUCATION. nwhy an education?W is sometimes asked by impatient young people. Why all of the bother to become that which is to be scorned in certain idle quarters, HA grindn? To this question comes various answers. The one most frequently given is that it's main object is to enable you to earn a living with a small amount of ease and comfort. But although this answer is most fre- quent none could be more incorrect. The main object of an ecucatien is to enable you to lead a happier and more prosperous life. The person with the least amount of education in the world may be able by digging in a ditch to earn a fair share of the necessary dollars, but neither his digg- ing nor his ignorance will enable him to lead a happier life for himself or help along the world at large. if the world there must be an adequate preparation. This we class under the general term HEducation.H who would ion of some sort would be taken to an insane as a person dangerous to the community. But every day is to win from him something worth giving preparation Thr man foundat- assyhnu almost we see young people rushing out intothe world attempt to build a house without a of business whose lecg 'f all kinds of knowledge re' minds us of a builder attempting to rest the framewJrV of a building in mid air. This sight would indeed be redieulous were it not so pitiful. There are amount of of'Frane, of Madame a fund of any human many people who are envied for their great knowledge. We are told that Marie Ant1c-.ete when committed to the tower expressed her envy Roland, because of her well-stored mind. Let knowledge should never call forth envy from being. For it is a possesion within,the reach

Page 25 text:

ef every one to whom has been given a fair amount of brains. Never before in the history of our country has the op- portunity for acquiring knfwledgo been so wedespread as now. In every state in our land, in every couty nad township we have the public schools. All over the continent everywhere in fact, the hands of the Amer- ican people are stretching out to assist the seekers of knowledge. One strange quality about the theing we call education is that it must never cease. No matter how great our knowledge may be, we can never come to the time when we can honestly say, NI know cnough.n Since there is no limit to the knowledge which the human mind may acquire, wo there should be no limit to the desire for its attainment. There are two rules that all who desire an education should remember, ULearn a little every dayn, and when you are confronted by something which you do not knew rest not until you learn it. Richard VanMiddlcsworth SUCCESS IN LIFE. Life is a journey we make only once. There is no round trip ticket. It isn't the number of years we live but what we put in those years that make our lives successful. I'm quoting from Bailey when I Say: NWe live in deeds not years, ' In feelings not in figures on a dial, In thoughts, not breaths, We should count time by heart threbs, He lives most who thinks most Many people that have pnly a short journey in life at- tain success, whilt scum people that travel the road for many years never achieve it. Why is this true? Maybe the people that never became successful did not have a definite goal in mind when they started out. To be succ essfull one must know exactly what he wants to do, and how he intends to achieve what he desires. The road to success is difficult but few things are easy. Some people get on the wrong road and never find the way back to the main highway. Thus the great secret of mak- ing the tourney of life successful 1 es in discovering at the start the main road and then staying on it. A1- 5