Columbia Adventist Academy - Vine Maple Yearbook (Battle Ground, WA)

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1 9 4 8 V I N M Tlnough hxs ktndly and sympathetlc gutd ance he won the admlratlon and respect of PRINEIPALS NIE SAGE Rabbr Hrrsch rn the Western Recorder makes the tollowmg strtkmg state ment The greatest fallure of the mneteenth century has been the tallure of relrgrous educatmon The etghteenth century closed w1th a behef tn the effl crency of educatxon and the best mmds of the day seemed to have dreams of umversal educatlon and called 1t the umversal panacea for all the soclal ev1ls We have largely reahzed those dreams and have d1scovered that the educat1on of the head alone has not kept the promrses wh1ch the ph1losopher of the erghteenth century beheved 1t would keep Educatron has not decreased and not the weart and soul tne publrc school rs fCI1l1IlQ Educatlon Just as the great elemental forces of trre and water can be used to serve e1ther good or ev1l ends lust as the drctators used the power of educat1on to tasten thetr evrl aestgns upon the1r people so should we use Cl'1I1Sl1G.H educatrorv as a power for the purpose of perpetuatmg and strength enmg the Gospel and our way of hte Colump1a A ademy rs estaphsned for tne pur ose of provxdtng a true Chrrsttan educat1on vwrth the proper sptrttual stamp on every student B M KURTZ all. , S I ,, . , A . the criminal classes but made them more dangerous. ln educating the head . I A, . . . , ., C , . . , ,. L YD , t V E M A P L E