Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Few of us were manually slqilledg fhe greaf maiorify, fhose of us who priclced our inexperienced fingers on unfriendly needles and wrenched our muscles in fhe foils of a gear shiff, were primarily concerned wifh fhe more prefenfious lessons fo be learned from fexfboolcs. Manual arfs was offenfimes a humorous inferlude, a comic relief from fhe academic grind. Somefimes if was fun - someone will always remember fhe day fhaf Joe coolced fhe spinach before he washed if. Ofher fimes, when probing for fhe ever-missing bolf, if became preffy maddening. And we guess fhere were lessons fo be learned here, foo. The value of cooperafion was no meaningless phrase in fhe sfruggle fo beaf fhe menacing deadline. The necessify for persisfenf efforf became apparenf mosf offen only affer fhe lack of if caused failure and disappoinfmenf. And maybe our inabilify fo perform manual faslcs wifh any sfarfling success provolced some respecf and undersfanding of people who work slcillfully wifh fheir hands. Sfill, fhere were some of us who iusf had a good fime. Soon l'll be using fhreadf' Where do fhe exfra parfs go7

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i . . . BUUH5 We have had olher chances, many ol lhem, lo learn aboul olher people. We have sfudied aboul' Jrhem. We have maslered lhe verbs and pronouns ol lheir languages, read ol lheir hislories and cullures. We have been Told and have seen The piclures ol lheir presenl condilions - The bodies and laces of lhe many who are hungry and lired - and have lallsed ol lheir lufure hopes. This, we lcnow, is an indirecl process ol educalion. l-lere, words and piclures are lhe middlemen belween us and human realily. Yel, because This has been a conscious and organized melhod ol learning, il has had, for some of us, a cerlain delinile value. Some ol us have been able 'ro undersland lhe experiences ol olher peoples, cullures, and hislories, lhough They have buf read and imagined of Jrhem: olhers have no+ and perhaps have nol wanled lo. -TWU WAYS TU UNDEHSTAD