Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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 litions; and in France and Germany, where there is a great desire to progress still further. Behold, even the Empire of China, tliat once most exclusive country on the other side of th, world, is attempting to adjust her recent educational pro grain to her ancient customs. Doubtless in time she will succeed. . No movement along these lines is of more importance than the increasing interest in moral education. The two distinguishing features of this movement have been one convention and several publications. These are merely a means for a more extensive growth in this branch. Industrial Education holds no minor place. Boys and girls are destined to become men 1 anil women of usefulness. Every individual was intended for something worth while, and this line of education will help to bring this into effect. Education is truly spreading her wings for distant flights in order to accomplish great ends. Surely if this recent gain in culture is to produce such far reaching effects, what will he the progress a century hence! The prospect is fair indeed. The brilliant sun of culture, .just rising above the horizon, will rapidly make its way through the many dark clouds of ignorance until ultimately it will reach its zenith of educational development HELEN F. HFXT.

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Salutatory RECENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Tin i ra of ignorance and skepticism lias passed. An era ol political, religious, industrial and educational activity has taken its place. Education is playing an individual role in life’s great drama. And what a progress it is making! Such an advance that when we hut pause and glance over the histories of nations and compare the educational facilities ot a century ago with those that now exist, we behold a difference between them so vast that we scarcely comprehend it. The Spartan youth was taught only along those lines which would make him a soldier competent to do his duty even in the very face of death. The less fortunate Spartan maiden did not even receive this limited education; her lot was to remain at home and humbly perform the many household duties. However such is not the case now. Opportunities for a sound education are open on every side to the girls and boys. hat-cver profession they wish to take up is full of possibilities. Concerning the methods, direct ions, tendencies and needs of educational effort anew work is being emphasized and discussed among the Presidents of the various universities in the United States. President Hall of Clark University says; “The greater educational need is a higher grade of University work and better University ideals. It should be a matter of national disgrace that the apex of our educational system is in Europe, particularly in Germany, where so many of our beat graduates have to go.” These men of high educational standing are anxious to procure for us the very best methods in education that can be hail, to supply the many deficiencies in the school system, and in so doing raise the standards of educational progress even higher. Already within the last three years educational societies have sprung up in the United States for this purpose alone. Societies for the advancement of Industrial. Scientific. Technical, Agricultural and common educational interests. Does this not mean progress? There is also developing to a marked degree an international movement in education. An interchange of teachers from foreign Universities is being made between the United States. Europe and Asia. Not only is such rapid progress being made in the United States, but also in Russia, where the authorities arc striving to introduce better educational con- 14

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Dalebictorv IS TYRANNY SUCCESS? Shall the belligerent cry of “Might is Right’ ring paramount in this age of freedom, progress and enlightenment? Despotism and tyranny have met their doom. Hut. alas, these subtle barbaric elements are unconsciously characteristic of the age. Prevalent in politics, in the industrial world and among individuals, reacting not only upon the character and integrity ot the people hut upon their ideals and standards Since the gray dawn of history, the desire for power and glory has led man, the child of ambition, to tyrannize over his weaker fellowman. Flagrant were the deeds of primitive man ; bloody and ghastly his wars for the maintenance of mastery. At first, the mightiest were the rulers. Then the rulers began teaching monarchy as an idea, passing the mastery to their descendants. while the ignorant, unthinking multitude finally accepted their teachings and the hereditary rulcrship as being by divine right. This brutal attainment of mastery to the uncivilized primitive mind embodied success. Hut shall we of the twentieth century, who pride ourselves on justice, human rights and freedom, exemplify the barbaric customs of our primitive ancestors and set up “tyranny —an emblem of injustice—as the standard of success? To our shame we must acknowledge that we arc doing it. The rude, ruthless hand of the irresponsible tyrant still sways the sceptre of greed and avarice. Tyranny is predominant, though democracy the rule. Often in the fierce struggle for existence, the weak are “crowded to the wall” by tin selfish, ambitious tyrant, who by ignoble ami tyrannical means has gained ascendency; often men who have no other object in lile than the mere acquisition of money arc forced to trample the weaker down in order to upbuild their own fortunes; often the more powerful combine to extort money from the weaker. And we of the twentieth century entitle it “success.” W Imt is the attitude of America? It has been declared that the higher life of tin American people “has been drugged with a spirit of mercenary materialism' and that political self seeking and unlimited corporate grcc l have become a national religion. Is it true then that the American people are worshiping false standards of success? Peculiarly' characteristic of the age is the “worship of the dollar; ’ Gold is the American idol. To this source may he traced the degradations and corruptions of the age. Yet there is a tendency to set the dollar as the standard of success. While stern necessity makes