Lacon High School - Tickler Yearbook (Lacon, IL)

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L be if our forefathers had not planted trees. watered and protected them? They were looking ahead, not alone for their own pleasure. but for those to come after. So it is with us. Let us look ahead along educational lines, pre- pare for those who are to come after, and with all of us helping those who are chosen as ministerial officers ltrustees and board of educationl, make our community the very center of learning and the best place to live and rear our children HOMER BARNEY. GEORGE SMITH, FRANK BARR, GEORGE CONV.-KN. HARRY HEXTER. LEVVIS ALLEN, Board of Education, Lacon L'nion Schools. THE V IEWPOINT OF THE FACULTY OUR AIM The writer does not claim the following ideas as orig- inal with him. He has drawn freely from two books, The lluman Factor in Education, by james Monroe, and Com- munity Organization, by joseph Kinmont Hart. These books are to be highly recommended to those interested in the social view of education. The writer hopes that in some sniall degree he will set Lacon people to thinking along these lines. Education is a word found in the everyday vocabulary of a great ma- jority of people and yet there are so few that really perceive all that the word implies. The ordinary layman associates the word only with the activities of the school proper. All children labor under the delusion that education is going to school. XYith hundreds of people education has lost the most important part of its true significance. and legion are those who associate it with but one of the true phases of human development, that of the mind. Men seem to have temporarily forgotten that human nature is threefoldg that every child has a body to properly care for and develop as well as a character to develop for good or bad.