Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Why do you go to school? Probably you have never asked yourself that questron Prob ably you take school attendance tor granted You go to h1gh school because that seems the thmg to do Your teen age ne1ghbors do lt and so do your teen age tnends and relatlves ln deed you have 11ttle cho1ce 1n the matter unt1l you reach slxteen The law requlres that you stay ln full t1me school unt1l you reach that age And most ltkely your parents 1ns1st that you rerna1n there untrl you graduate Of course 1t may Just happen that you hke school Sorne wrll regard th1s as funny But the chances are that 1f a vote were taken on a secret ballot rt would be found that most g1rls and boy s enyoy attend1ng h1gh school even WOODS thouah many of them seem always to be count rna the hours untrl the next holrday or vacatron YOU CANT WEIGH OR MEASURE IT D W . ln any case lf you stop and thlnk about the auestron you ll no doubt say that attendlng hlah school serves a double purpose It helps prepare you for both a aood Job and for entry lnto college Tnxs IS obvtously true But as you w1ll reahze rf you awe a httle more thought to the matter hlah school does more than that All r1ght you rnay say at th1s polnt what for example? An easy answer ts that 1t prepares you for l1fe But then the phrase preparatron for hte 1S L L ,R be ali l 1 If 9 L, Li illl . W l 4 w rn 48 X '-l ll 'ri' -f 1 lull e l W rr J fffff' Xyxff

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and bust of Shakespeare so vague and general as to be almost meanmgless Besldes as Iohn Dewey the great ploneer of progresswe educatlon pomted out long ago hte does not Walt to begm untxl after you graduate from school You are very much ahve Whlle you are 1n school So school 1S most dehnltely part ot hte and not lust preparat1on for hte Nevertheless lt 15 true that hlah school helps areatly to enlarge your capaclty for a r1ch and full hte lt helps develop 1n you a capacrty to see feel sense understand apprec1ate and enyoy certarn thrngs and exper1 ences Whlch Wrthout that capaclty would rema1n closed books to you Another Way of saymg thls IS to note that hrgh school helps open up to you the vast Wonderful world of splrltual and aesthehc values Splrztual aesthetlc oh yes you may thmk to yourself 'l have a general ldea of What these Words mean l beheve lt someone sald to me You have a splrrtual expenence when you take part tn a rel1a1ous SGTVICG l would get the 1dea I beheve too l would catch on 1f l were told I have an aesthetlc expenence when l look at and really see an exhlblt ot pa1nt Mrs. Reel with group of her English students studying model of London's old Globe Theater