Fowlerville High School - Commander Yearbook (Fowlerville, MI)

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GLENN GRIEVE IDALENE WEBB GOLDIE BAKER I tx K A72 N' LILLIAN ITSELL

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TEACHERS Superintenclent. Glenn Grieve Principal. Idalene Webb Assistant, Lillian Itsell .Superintendent Music. Goldie Baker

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e i g lm S c lm o o GLENN GRIEVE The high school has been called the poor man's college, and as such it ought to take the place of college to those who are unfortunate, or fortunate as the case may be, to be compelled to defer their college course until such a time as they have mental stamina enough to take their college course with sense and seriousness. But our high schools must deal with real not with ideal condition of things and therefore we must face the fact that nine-tenths of our pupils do not enter college. It is then the duty of the high school to furnish the sinews for the student in his struggle with the busy world. Then things the high school should develop in its students are initiative, independence, integ- rity. A boy, a girl cannot be reared in a hot house until eighteen years of age and then be expected to thrive under unfavorable conditions. We mean by this that a school which is conducted on t-he theory that the pupil should have everything done for him, that he should be pampered and petted into the be- lief that life is a rosey path, one continuous round of pleasure from the cradle to the grave, is the school that breeds the social vampire and the parlor an- archist. The boy or girl who has all the wrinkles of life smoothed out for him, who never has had an obstacle to overcome has been cheated out of his birthright, and the parent or teacher who tries to shield the boy or girl from every nn- pleasantness falls far short of being an ideal parent or teacher. When the taxpayer of a locality furnish the means for the support of thc high school they have a right to expect certain results. They have a right to expect a graduate of their schools to be a little better prepared to cope with the duties of life. They have a right to expect him to be a little better citizen, a little more alive to the topic ot the day, to have a little nicer sense of civic honor than one without this training. A pupil who leaves our school, having completed his course, should not necessiarly be expected to be a walking encyclopedia and compendum of facts, but he should be expected to be able to do something and do that something better than one without the high school training. If he cannot wherein lies the benefit of our schools? If a boy graduates without being able to write a legible and intelligent business letter, with the common words spelled correctly, one of two things is certain, either the boy is a fool or the school is a failure, or both. If the.pupils of our senior classes cannot solve the problems that natur- ally arise in common business practice, the money spent in teaching mathe- matics has been thrown away. Unless the pupil can see more beauties in na- ture, unless he can feellthelleverlasting system that governs and controls this universe and can comprehend that he himself is but a unit of a stupendous whole, his science is wrong. So much for the pedagogical side of high school work. But after all what a pupil gets from books, while an important part, is not the whole of an education. The greatest lessons of life are learned from life. No amount of book learning will make a manly man. The home must do that. Therefore it is only justice to the school to say that the finished product