Galion High School - Spy Yearbook (Galion, OH)

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Board of Education MRS. J. E. CASEY DR. F. C. MCGAUGHY MR. GEORGE NICKELS MR. A. J. MONROE MR. A. J. HELFRICH Eight

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. Q' so 3-?i?z,y, KV Q' if .sf fl' 6 .av QI.. TEV K' :..f..i:.-g,,.,,,,..., ...,-i.,..,. ..,,.,,,,, . i , The True Education In response to your request, that I prepare an article for the 1926 Annual, I am submitting the following thoughts from various writers upon the subject of education: Education begins with life. Before we are aware the foundations of character are laid, and subsequent teaching avails but little to remove or alter them. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think-rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. A true education-what is it? It is awakening a love for truth, giving a just sense of duty, opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts, or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because honesty is the best policy, but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good, to be virtuous in action, because so in heart, to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character. We all have two educations, one from others, and another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves. It is this last which fixes our grade in society, and eventually our actual condition in this life, and the color of our fate hereafter. All the professors and teachers in the world would not make you a wise or good man without your own co-operation, and if such you are determined to be, the want of them will not prevail. The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life enduresg habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy, occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible. It is my sincere wish that each member of the Class of 1926, during the years spent in the schools of Galion, has acquired the foundation for an education such as the above writers have outlined. F. C. McGAUGHY, Pres. of Board of Education. Nine