Laingsburg High School - Looking Glass Yearbook (Laingsburg, MI)

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Presidents Address Oliver L. Schulze If I were to ask you why we came to high school and studied diligently these four years your answer would probably be: To advance your education. Very true, but now allow me to ask who is responsible for our education? The teachers, the school board, the parents, or possi- bly the taxpayers. But to which one does the student owe his or her thanks? Was it not for the individual help of the teacher the student would have to pull alone-something that many capable students in them- selves can not do. If it wasn't for the School Board we would have no competent teachers or good text books. The school board is an indispensable asset to any educational system. Yet they aren't directly responsible for our attending high school. Without the taxpayers we would have no teach- ers, buildings, or the like. The parents,.however, and the parents alone are responsible for our attending school. They alone give the boy or girl the opportunity to secure an education. They allow them to go and encourage higher education. If a boy or girl doesn't like high school it is useless to com- pel him or her to go because they won't study. Then in time they will be discharged. A student however will study, himself, if given the oppor- tunity, providing he likes school. However I know one instructor that will tell you that the average high school student dnesn't care enough for an education to even study. I, however, know that is untrue. Two months after I entered the Laings- burg High School as a Freshman I had it firmly settled in my mind that if I was to pass that first semester I would have to get busy, and on my own accord. Of course the teachers would have helped me if I had asked them and gladly. But I didn't ask them. I am an average person and what I learned in those first two months, others may learn sooner. Perhaps others might not learn as soon. But they must and will have to find it out,-and find it out alone. To enable a high school student to learn these things he must be granted privileges that he should not ac- cept. And all for the purpose of teaching the boy or girl the value of that one word, self-reliance. Of course they should explain to the student why these privileges are granted them. Then the instructor should use requests instead of commands. The school board, the teachers, the taxpayers and even the students all have a hand in securing the best methods of training. But the par- ents, Cthank God for such fathers and mothersl have given us what nobody else could when they gave their consent and a helping hand to put us through high school. Fathers and mothers, perhaps, some time in our career we have caused you much anxiety. But now, we are through school or at least through high school, and those worries are over. We know not what sacrifice you have made in our behalf, but we do know that if the time ever comes and wexare in a position to, we will pay you back, and with interest compounded. Q! Twenty-two KD

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