Hugh John Macdonald School - Searchlight Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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g ' iii . j . a » DO YOU STUDY? By Mary Pittarolll It is a surprising and somewhat shocking realization, that many students honostiy think they aro studying, when in reality, they are just wasting time. For instance, one student will tell you ho simply « an’t study without the radio blaring. But, ask him a question, and he ’ll look at you quizzically as if you were talking in some foreign language. You can’t learn the uses of the comma while following ycur favorite mystery story. To study, you must concentrato. Perhaps another student will sit down and really study for ten minutes. Then, she decided it’s time for a snack. After enjoying a tasty repast, and a long chatty phone call with hor friend, she is ready for another short dose. She didn’t sit still ' for more than ten minutes at a time. And yet, in the morning she’ll look up at you innocently and say, I thought I’d never finish my homework last night. It took so long.” Then we have the social butterfly - in one minute and out the next. Sfio is the typo you’ll find studying in Snatches between periods. It has“alwgys amazed mo that sho can learn the little bit she does amid such clamour and confusion. There are always some who wait until the last minutei They do their studying before going to bed, fighting a losing battle with sleep and time. I,ast but not least, there is the type Who thinks that when studying is the time to givo yourself a complete manicure with all the trimmings. All this while learning to decline Latin nouns? I could go on forever, 1 ut I think I’vo made my point clear. To study, you need a quiet atmosphere in which you can concentrate. Sot your wholo mind on the subjoct at hand, and don’t stop till it’s finished, no matter what happens. Do this and you can truly say, ,r Ycs, I study.” HOMEWORK By Biyan Collard Oil why was homowork moant for me, A kid wh likDS to play, and see The simple things in life. I liko to go to school by day To study hard th£ proper way; But when the boll rings and school is out I like to play and run about.

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' ' ■ — -—- - -- -- -.--- ' THOSE TEACHERS! BY Richmond loo Lifo is fall of many, many different things - fanny things, and not funny things, niaryoilous things, and not marvellous things, good things, ... and toachors. Toachors aro the Machiavollis of c-ur time, who think of all the tricky and ruthloss moans they could employ ifTorder to extend their powor. “They hove boon, and arc at present, controlling most of the timo, and influencing tho mind of tho lowly oroature-tho boy or girl attending school. As a young child of six mamma ' s llttlo darling” has fallon into tho graspifig hands of toachors who troublo his mind with A,B,C’s, doptrivo his fun-fillod leisure timo with ghastly homowork, and toach him unnocossary facts about unnocossary things. School is so boringl Sometimos a toachcr who craves for tho sound of his own melodious voico may utter account loss nunTJor of u ique sounds and expressions for hours, and on completion, ho will abruptly say, ' “‘ Don ' t hand in a wholo volume when a fow words will do. ,f Is this an example, or a violation of his own laws? guito often they will bo loquacious enough to talk thirty-four“of tho thirty-five minute period t and then at this opportune t imo, toil us to copy down notes that aro on tho blackboard. Toachors aro groat organizers. They have a special volunteer system in which tho volunteer has complete confidence in his superiors, Of“courso, toachors are completely reliable, aren ' t they? - in this volunteor system, you are hand-picked for some disgr coful assignment. It works out fino for the teachers, but tho so-calle l volunteer never knows what may happen next. There are times when a ; tudent, by slioer accidont, forgets to do Ms homework, speaks out of burn, or has committed sano other minor crime. Poor pupils! Unfortunotoly, the dictator has many simple but offoctivo methods to copo with the inu-brpaker. A forget¬ ful student mey find himself scrawling out a tremendous number of signs and symbols which are to bo handed to tho teacher by the next day. You’ve done lines” before, havoMt you? The more persistent law-breaker however, is handlod more offoctivciy. The norvos on tho palms of tho student ' s hands may bo quickly stimulated by tho method famously knows as strapping. As each day whizzes by, tho teacher adds another pleasing, and most delightful day to his glorious past of teaching. “T3ocause“toachers have a most memorable past-timo , and tho Mghest of all heavenly jobs; it is no wonder that many a boy or girl has as his or her ambition to bee one a great teacher. However, after all that ' s boon said and done about teachers, I can honestly say“that they are a real asset to our pers ial life. Through them, and only through thorn, may be achieve our success in life. If you wish ’to know ycursoif obsorvo how others act. if you wish to under- ’ • • stand othors look into your own hiddon thoughts.