Lincoln Sudbury High School - Dyad Yearbook (Sudbury, MA)

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4 What We Learn In High School Well, here I am again, it’s eleven p.m. Sunday night and I have barely even thought about what I’m going to say. One thing that we all learn are habits, and this is an example of a bad one. So what do we learn in school? I now know that in a right triangle the square of the sum of the sides equals the square of the hypot- enuse. We also have all learned what the insides of a pig look like. I know, well I used to know, all the Presi- dents in order. Did you know that Odysseus had major problems get- ting back to his wife? Can you climb walls? Seriously though, there is more to learning than just facts. It may not seem like there is in the middle of your math final, but somewhere out there .. . If you care enough to look beyond just the facts that some teachers seem to pile upon you, there is so much (I was going to say “a lot,” but I learned that that was bad English) about life in what is being said. You most likely won’t find it during a Trig class of while you're making explosions in a Chem lab. Not that I have anything against math and science, I'll get into them in a little, however, in my experi- ence, the History and English courses try to teach not only just the facts, but impart a fleeting taste of the world out there. Within the “confines” of history, a sense of re- Terry Brennan (89) lifts her attention from her schoolwork to flash a classmate a sparkling smile. Karam Maira (92), Eric Gustafson (92), Scott Fitz- gerald (92), and Mark Whipple (92) attempt to distract Paul Healy (92) during Freshmen Orientation. Adam Kreisel (90) contemplates Tender Nights in his future. Amy Heinicke (92) and Paige Ruddy (92) redis- cover the theory of “Empty vs. Full.” In Class -Josh Spiewak sponsibility not to do what our an- cestors have done is taught; the old saying goes “learn about history or be doomed to repeat it.” Issues are raised on the morality of what the United States was and is doing abroad. I guess what I’m trying to say is that our teachers are trying to make us care about what happens. Well, here is math and science. These are the paths to the future. New and great achievements will be accomplished by the next genera- tion, us. We have only to reach for it, and the tools for these feats are being given to us. You may scoff at this, but there is no denying that we are the future, the world will become how we wish it to be. Putting classes aside altogether, there is one last aspect to our educa- tion, the social aspect. We learn what friendship really means in the four years at high school. Some of us learn what love is, too. Most of us learn what it means to be part of a team. We learn what pain and sor- row are. Everyone learns what peer pressure is. Many donate their time to feeding the hungry, trying to free political prisoners, or in some way trying to make a difference. But per- haps the single most important thing we are only just beginning to learn, is who we are...

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