Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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One of the important purposes of Edison High School is to develop within each student the ability to make wise decisions based upon accurate facts, clear reasoning, and understanding. An educated man is open minded. He weighs all the evidence before making a decision. An educated man should be able to choose between good and evil, truth and falsehood, the beautiful and the ugly, the worthwhile and the trivial. His education should have prepared him to make the many decisions necessary in planning a good life and conducting it properly. In a nation of free men universal education is a necessity. Education must be more than mere training, more than adjustment to the world as it is. We hope that each student graduating from Edison High School will be better prepared to take part in remaking his world by making sound decisions in the home, on the job, and in his community. James F. Zimdars Assistant Principal

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The American high school serves as a transition period from youth to adulthood for each student who enters its doors. It is the last stage of formal education open to all youth. If the entering student has adequate basic skills and attitudes, the tenth grade should be a most productive year. New ambitions are awakened, new understandings of life goals appear on the horizon, and new responsibilities for one's own progress become the keynote of each day's school work. Those who enter the final two years of high school should then have better appreciations of their own abilities and limitations, their aims in life should be a matter of vital concern, for most of them education now takes on a new meaning. In these formative years as juniors and seniors, decisions are made and patterns of living are developed which may be lifelong in importance. Character and personality come more sharply into focus. The student is aware that adulthood is no longer a far-away dream, it has nearly arrived. The time schedule for all students is not the same, but the clock turns back for no one. What is missing in one's preparation for life may still have to be learned. Those who have done more than meet requirements will be amply rewarded by being further along the road of life accomplishment. Learning to put first things first is still the most important lesson of life. Paul A. Samuelson, Principal

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MATH In addition to preparing us for college work in fields requiring mathematics, math teaches us how to solve many of the problems of everyday living. Christopher Hamrin, Celia Torney Benjamin liemohn, Everett Zellers, James Kottom