Huntington North High School - Modulus Yearbook (Huntington, IN)

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L 5 5 L, E E I v f 92 4 -Q K JI. HH. Svruhhvr, SHQJPYIUTPHDPUI HE Declaration of Independence is the greatest educational program ever pre- sented in the world. lts very fundamentals depend upon universal intelligence and right- eousness. lts author declared the consent of the governed to be the true foundation of all just authority. He affirmed his allegiance to a school i system that educates the masses and gives each person an opportunity to prepare for his chosen work. CD O 4 rn '-1 I3 B ru D F? U' 'SQ ff 'J' rn n O ZS KD fb I3 ff O H1 F? 27 na UQ O 4 FD f-1 I3 rn O- Q demands a government built upon a system of Q education that seeks to develop ideals of justice I and service. In a Democracy, consent in the '. hands of a starving, unproductive, intolerant, ignorant citizen would become an anarchy. There is no such thing as a free country without free men, and we cannot have a free and enlightened citizenship without free and CH:1C1CI'1t schools. When the people understand that the school is a citadel of freedom, a funda- mental necessity to life, liberty, and property, they will rally around the school for fi the same reason they fight for the flag. No citizen can turn his back upon the school without turning his back upon the QQ flag. No man 'who is for his country can consistently be against the school. He , cannot be even negatively for it, for it means life, liberty, and property rights to him, and he cannot escape this responsibility. ' The public school is a community center, a common ground upon which all of 95 3. the people can unite in the interest of spiritual and material progress. Fiske wrote, Let us cherish our public schools as the looms, and our teachers as the Weavers who - ' weave the wondrous destiny for our nationf, We cherish the public school because it is the friend of the boys and girls. is everf mans rien . san s a e oor o e oor an at t e oor o 5' Ir 5'fdIttdtthd fthp d hd f the rich, offering equal opportunity for training and outlook. It gives to every I child something that is more valuable than gold. Daniel VVebster said in one of his great addresses, Education, to accomplish the ends of good government, should be universally diffused. Open the doors of the school house to-all the children in the land. Let no man have the excuse of poverty for not educating his own offspring. Place the means of education within his reach, and if they remain in ignorance, be it his own reproach. On the diffusion of education among the people rests the preservation and perpetuation of our free constitutionf' i M. Scudder Page Fourteen