Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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TO THINK FREELY Unless an individual is interested, living in a democracy can’t teach him to shun intolerance any more than going to school can teach him to think. A good school or government can only offer the opportunity to learn—the rest is up to him! If a student thinks and acts intelligently when he is given the chance, his teachers encourage him ... if he tries and doesn’t succeed, they don’t send him to a concentration camp . . . they reason with him, show him where he slipped up and get him on the right track again. Until, after a while, doing his own thinking becomes a habit and he really starts getting things done. In a dictatorship people who do their own thinking generally get shot—but not here. Here, the “Little Guy’s” right to tell the world what he believes in is sacred. Let’s keep it that way. Let’s keep it a country where students can disagree with their text books. Let’s keep it a country where teachers can teach what they believe is right . . . where the little guy doesn’t get a gun shoved in his face for telling the mayor or the governor or the President to get on the job! What do you say? It’s up to you! If you’ve learned somewhere along the way, to think for yourself your’re on the first rung of Fortune’s ladder . . . but if you haven’t... Wake up and start learning! Be an alert American, a better citizen of your town, and a better citizen of your world! PAGE FOUR

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CALIBUR AND EDUCATION I EMOCRACy CROWN POINT H|pH SCHOOL

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Whatever you were this year . . . water-boy, cheer¬ leader, student, staff member or innodent bystander it doesn’t matter . . . because it’s a good bet you had fun anyway. The right to express ourselves freely is the basis for the American belief in every individual’s ability to shape his own destiny. In¬ stead of taking it for granted let’s remember that if the young people of a good many countries were given the opportunity to “be themselves” and not puppets they would regard it as a duty and re¬ sponsibility, not a freedom. A good baseball player knows that using his glove every day keeps it flex¬ ible and in good condition . . . freedoms are the same way . . . using them keeps them flexible. Say what you think (after you think, of course!). And it will keep your mind in condition to meet the everchanging demands of the future! TO EXPRESS OURSELVES