James Madison High School - Log Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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GBLII' Elnfnrmal 3 huratiun Knowledge which is acquired under com- pulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusementg this will better enable you t.o find out the natural bent of the child. -Plato Although Plato's concept of education may be more desirable than that which is practiced today, it is not as easily applicable. Plato lived in a relatively simple era in which life was not a constantly competitive strug- gle for technological and sociological improvement. Time and money were not of the essence. People had time to think, to learn, to do as they pleased, when they pleased. Today the continual advances in the sciences, government, industry and human relations cannot afford the time required for totally individual pursuits. Progress is very rapid. It tramples anyone who cannot keep pace with it, or stay ahead of it. Thus the present educational program is designed to promote the intellectual development not only of those who want it, but of those who need it. While some cynics may agree with St. Augustine, who said, Who is so stupidly curious as to send his son to school in order that he may learn what the teacher thinks? other students will remember that not all edu- cation is a product of formal training. The art of learning is the art of discovery, just as the art of teaching is the art of helping discovery to take place. While there is a skill in formal teaching, there is also, as St. Thomas Aquinas noted, a skill in discovery, and it is our own discoveries that encourage our quest for knowledge. A good deal of our informal education is derived from personal experi- ences at home, with friends, on jobs, with books. Each presents to us a variety of views, places and concepts which influence our values and decisions. Plays, concerts and trips to museums enhance our cultural background. All of these are voluntary activities. Radio and television, as Well as newspapers, are other media which provide an unofficial education. How much the individual learns from these associations and experiences depends upon his alertness, his awareness, and his appreciation of the sig- nificance of the educational opportunities to which he is exposed. Informal education is best acquired by a mind which is unfettered and uncompelled, but free to seek and select, reject and absorb. Barbara Limberg

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GBu12rhvz1ri1.... 22 MR. BLOCH: Last call. Come and get it! MR. FEIT: If you Want to talk, go home and use the phone. I have stock in the Telephone Company. MR. H. FINE: Help! ! ! ! MR. FINO: Okay, you chuckleheads, line upli' MISS KYLE: Sorry, I only see Seniors on Tuesdays and Thursdaysf, MR. S. LEVINE: Okay, class, ready for a lesson? MR. MARANTZ: Cin chem classj OK, take a symbol for oxygen. fin physics classj OK, take an ohm. MISS MCCUSHING: Keep your chins up, if you have two. MR. MOSKOWITZ: How tall are you, son? Want to join the basketball team? MR. RODDMAN: You mean to say that you haven't memorized 'Macbeth' yet? MRS. SUBSTITUTE: All right: who signed 'Chuck Wagon' on the Attendance Sheet? MISS SUGARMAN: I'm SO1'1'y, but you can't come through the front hall. MRS. THOLFSEN: Pas en francais: en ture!