Greenville High School - Chrysalis Yearbook (Greenville, ME)

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MANUAL TRAINING DEPT. TYPING CLASS AT WORK

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- FIODC POW BECK l'OW Front row Back row ' JUNIOR SPEAKERS tl. to r.J: L. Magee, C.Clark, P. Landerkln, M. Smith, N. Ryder, C. Swazey fl. to r.J2 R. Budden, L. Pratt, R. Hamlin, G. Hlll, K. Davls, H. Hlll. FRFSI-IMAN SPEAKERS tl. to r.l: C. Landerkin, J. Knowlton, R. Craig, J. Hathaway, D. Hamilton ll. to r.J: D. Muzzy, D. Clark, J. McNaughton, R, Heal, L. Hilton l

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THE CHRYSALIS 21 2 -.L X I- Z - i f 'iiiifiiiiseaiwiiiigif 2 ' o W W Zeilsii iil is Ziff M 6,115 2 ' ' s ., E -a YA,-U -??I ' J fr:- ' I T -Q85 u of 'L EE4 lfyi'-1w:i Y, -f YY 6126 - X Y , - EDUCATION AND THE BUILDING OF CHARACTER The time is coming when our edu- cational systems must prepare to teach more than the mathematics, geog- raphy, history and other cut and dried subjects which it has presented to the children of the nation up to this time. We are coming to realize that there must be classes in the art of liv ing together with our neighbors, es- pecially those toward whom we are apt to feel hatred and prejudice. There is little place in our minds and hearts for the false fears and petty discrimination which have unfort- unately crept into us Americans who so pride ourselves on our lack of class distinction and our equality of oppor- tunity. Small children, young boys and girls, and many hundreds of thous- ands of men and women in their late teens spend more time in the class- and in- room under the guidance fluence of schoolteachers than with including any other human beings, their parents. It is in the classroom. X on the school playground, in the social life of the school, that their characters and their world outlook, as well as their mental habits, are largely formed. The Nazis have shown us what can be accomplished in ten years in the development of character in the schools of a nation. What they accom plished in evil influence can be dupfi cated in our schools in a wholesome influence over the same period of time. The bully at ten is the bully at thirty. To the name-calling child the object of his derision is a lowly infer- ior. When he yells Wop , nigger, kike , or chink he does not know that he is deriding the Constitution of the United States. Who is to explain this to him, that when we belittle anyone for reasons of race, religion or color we are ridiculing ourselves, our parents, and our country and holding them up to contempt? The idea that is America is the idea of freedom for human beings. Besides learning the meaning of American