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

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4 THE SEARCHLIGHT EDUCATIONAL LADDER By D.A. Patterson, B.A, ; B. Pasd. Principal When ws wish to got to » grnl or position beyond r-ur reach we may use a ladcar. By going up the ladder, rung by rung, we are able to reach any height dep.-inning upon the length of the la- ' ler one upon our strength courage, ability, .nc willingness to climb. In attaining an education, w might think of the various school subjects, such as English nnd other languages, science, social studies, music, art, home economics, manual arts, physical training, health, as rungs in an educational la.C ' A.e.r. By those wo climb to : nch now division or gra.de or story of our education; 1 structur .. It is interesting to not. on peculiarity about this ladder. It must be built by each individual ns ho or she climbs. No on: c n do this far us. The raw o • tori- Is that we use to built our own ladder arc provided, for us in the texts and oth..r boobs of information, in tops, ’i grams and pictures, or can bn obtained through other sources of knowledge placed before us. Teachers ■■ rs provided, to guia.v and assist in th.: pinning and building. But each student must read and study the blu„ prints provid-■•’, listen to th , guidance given, and with his or her own hands and mind construct each individual rung upon which to climb. . ' mother peculiarity about this ladder may b.. not-=d. Just as th ' rungs of a builder ' s ladder must bo bound together by strong bars into which th . rungs are affixed, so too, the rungs of our educational ladders must be connected by strong bars. These the habits of thinking nd doing that w develop as wr think •bout and work over the educational problems that wo face and attempt to solve day by day. Unless wo or son- thinking for ourselves nd work hard, the. educa¬ tional ladder that w - re building will b shaky and liable to collapse. ow well have wa constructed, and how far upward in educsti n have we been bi , to reach with the eauc.nti ' nel laom.-r that w h-av- been building this year? In the world of nature w. reap what wo sow ; similarly in ths realm of education w . g in in knowl.edg ' rncl power according to the kind of materials and amount of effort that wn put into the, building of the. 30 ’ucr.tional ladder upon which each must climb alone. Some; of you will have climbed to the- top story in the; Junior High this year and will be going on to high school or passing out into the bif? world to take up battle of life with the strength you have already gained. Wo wish all of you well, and hope that you may climb to heights not yet attain.;!. To thos in our school who will be with us ag-in next year may I gay th-t ws look forward to another successful term of building and climbing together. :Jc i|: f There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects and three-story intel¬ lects with skylights. All fact collectors who have no aim beyond their facts are one-story intellects. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealiz imagine, prediot; their best illumination comes from above through the skylight — Oli ar fendell Holmes