Culver Military Academy - Roll Call Yearbook (Culver, IN)

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Opportunities for learning are both diverse and challenging. The fatal consequence of pigeonholing assignments is just one way cadets learn. Sitting in a classroom may be an easier means of acquiring know¬ ledge, but an instructor can only present a concept to his pupils —the student must think it out for himself to gain more than memorized facts. Occasionally, the subject hardly seems worth attention. Determining the fruit fly ' s reproduction rate may not seem significant, but it is a step toward learning how to learn. Practical experiences abound at Culver; almost everyone Jearns how to make his bed. The correct tech¬ nique of folding laundry, the nomenclature of the M-l rifle, and the 11 General Orders soon become common knowledge. 6 Reactions to Learning

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Reactions To Culver Reactions, the responses to the aesthetic and physical aspects of environment, are the essence of living — instructors, other cadets, the campus, the uniform, dining hall food, sunrise . . . one hour after reveille. Remaining in bed ’til the three minute bell, or until the authorities walk through barracks has been unofficial Culver tradition for as long as anyone can remember, or cares to remember at that hour. Procrastination starts in the morning, but unlike bed, you sometimes never leave it during the day. School work seems to receive the brunt of procrastination, but sooner or later homework demands a response, when long-range assignments become all-night realities. There is, by God ' s grace, an immeasurable difference between late and too late. Madame Swetchine .

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A mind uncluttered by useful knowledge is capable of contentment and even happiness. A. A. Milne Reactions to Learning 7