College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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Learning was fun! At home they learned their first lessons. They learned to live with other members of the family. Their mothers taught them to clean up their rooms, to help with younger brothers and sisters. Their dads taught them to mend their own toys, to pound nails not fingers. Through these lessons and skills, they became better able to go from this home ttclassroom into the laboratories to test their experiences. In the community they learned how to ex- pand their home backgrounds to become independent from their families and ac- ceptable to their friends. They took music, dancing, or elocution lessons. They went swimming, played softball on the corner lot, and rode bicycles in the Independence Day parade. From assications With new ideas and people, they were able to go from the community laboratory to the test. It was in the church that they found the first tests of their lives. They learned the beliefs of their fathers faiths and first be- gan to question them. They learned the difference between right and wrong and the codes the church set for them. They attended services with their families and friends. In the church they found ques- tions and some of the answers to the first test,, and passed on to find more of them.

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. . . to face adult life. They entered high school at an insecure age, doubtful of their futures; but most of them left knowing the direction they were head- ing. The years in high school were valuable in developing self-confidence. Extra-curricu- lar activities played a big part in their growth; part-time jobs and career guidance programs helped them choose their future work. However, when graduation arrived, their educations were surely not complete.