Dondero High School - Oak Yearbook (Royal Oak, MI)

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Foreword sets continuing process of education Dondero High School one a photograph taken in the fall of 1964, the other a re production of the architects's drawing, which originally appeared in the 1927 OAK. These two pictures, along with the print on this page, which depicts the four- teenth century theologian Albertus Magnus lecturing to his students, define the theme of the 1965 OAK: The Continuing Process of Education. Through comparisons and contrasts the introduc- tion included in the following pages will relate various aspects of education at Dondero during the past year with elements of the age-old process of education. This introduction describes the influences exerted upon education during three important periods, the primi- tive, the medieval, and the modern. The academics division copy will explore the links between the present curriculum and that of the Middle Ages while the sports, activities and seniors sections will explain further parallels between past and present education. Even the index and advertising copy are in some measure related to the educational process of history, and they will describe the effects of the individual and the business community upon Dondero during the school year 1964-65. By showing educational similari- ties between the past, the present, the 1965 OAK hopes that the significance these hold for the student will be increased and that our rich educational heritage will be more fully realized. n the preceeding page are two faces of . 7 7 Albertus Magrzus lectures in a fourteenth century school.

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Efiitlffi l rn? N! Long before schools were set up in ancient socie- ties such as Greech and Rome, education was an integ- ral part of the culture. The first educational program centers about prehistoric men, who learned by taking part in the activities of their own tribal societies. The groups had periods of test- ing for the supposedly educated young men, who had to demonstrate skill in hunting and weaponry as well as an understanding of and healthy respect for the tribe's custom and taboos. Other crafts formed part of the primitive education as and included the making of clothes from animal skins and painting on cave walls, as the picture on the facing page illustrates. Present-day Dondero has retained some aspects of this primitive learning, although in a highly altered form. In its curriculum, programs in wood - and metalworking teach the building of tools, as primitive boys learned the making of tools and weapons The home economics courses offer instruc- tion in making clothes, as primitive women taught the art to their daughters. The art classes teach painting as an expression of culture, just as the cave paintings demonstrate the culture of that prehistoric era. Although primitive man and his activities may seem remote to the average Don- dero students, some of his education may be based on this heritage of learning. PRIMITIVE EDUCATION well, I T- u .ff 'J' Fi? f .1 9' 65, I