Edison Institute High School - Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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DEDICATION This Yearbook is dedicated to four very dear friends of the students of Edison Instituteg Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford and Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford. It has been through their co- operation and interest that the activities and opportunities revealed in the following pages have been made possible. CUP I 3

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FOREWORD IFE is a process of education. The result of that education is what we call expe- rience. Or, to say it another way, edu- cation is what remains with us as the essence of experience. The earth is the schoolroom in which the work is carried on. Whatever else we may call education, in whatever other schoolrooms it may be pursued, if it does not give experience or help us to analyze and prolit by experience, it is not education. In the Greenfield schools this is what we believe and this is what we seek. There are assembled here for the student's use com- plete displays of every practical art by which man has maintained his life in the world and refined it to higher usefulness and power. The first duty of every person is to maintain him- self 3 until he can do this intelligently there is little chance of his doing much for other people. The ideal of our schools is that, after our students have learned how to perform their individual part in the world, they may enlarge that part so that it may become beneficial to others. It is still true that the great majority of people must be helped, must be guided by others more experienced than themselves, must have their work developed for them out of someone else's vision, and must be direct- ed how to use their energies to their own highest advantage. We are hoping that the type of leader who can do these things for others may be developed in the Greenfield Schools. To this end we are providing opportunity for the development of well-rounded men and women. One who is to be of service in the world should attain growth on all sides of his or her being. Not only intellectual ability, but moral character and the social values are to be kept constantly in view. To create by thinking, and to re-create by playing, and to humanize ourselves by social contacts and understanding and tolerance and helpful- ness, come very near to summarizing the work of people in this life. The Greenfield student should carry cer- tain marks, born of his or her experiences and opportunities in these schools. There should be the mark of initiative-willingness and ability to tackle the problem, whatever it may be. There should be the mark of indus- try-sparing no effort to achieve the proper end because of our inherent belief that every effort which anyone makes yields an impor- tant result. There should be also the mark of discrimination, as of one who has learned to distinguish between the real values of life and the false ideas that delude so many people today. Any person who has these qualities of char- acter is an educated person. Education is not stuffing the mind, but learning how to use the mind. Study is like food-it should be the source of wholesome nourishment and reliable strength. If we study and work and respect the rights of others, nothing can prevent us being well-balanced young men and women. I I 5