London Normal School - Spectrum Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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ccpr A chain is forged on the anvil of Time, a link a year, to pace the century, of human ore, moulded and tempered by many hands, adding length and strength and lustre to the whole, anchored in the rock of erudition. December 1964 G. H. Dobrindt etoce Messages Faculty Yearbook Messages Yearbook Staff Student Body Committees Athletics Literary Operational Staff Clubs Auditorium Programs Miscellaneous Advertising Graduation

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PrAJteiea 65 - 19 + 1965 + 90 =2102 ! This awesome piece of arithmetic has been haunting me. Many of you young people will still be teaching children well into the first decade of the two thousands. A few of the children whom you teach will even live on into the 22nd century. What sort of world will you be readying them for? -- One of instant sight and speech by each of us throughout our seven continents and out into space as well? One where as many footloose souls will have ventured to the moon and Mars as now travel to Ethiopia? One where poverty and disease and ignorance and crime have been all but banished? One where that kind of crime we call war has at last been conquered by the Golden Rule? (Otherwise we can be sure there will be no world at all.) In any case, it will be your work to help prepare children for this world. So much of what you teach in the way of new insights into mathematics and science --and that all -important science of living together --will be strange to us old codgers. At the same time, I should like to think that much of what you teach will still be what we oldsters already know, but alas, have not learned fully- -how to speak and write our glorious English language clearly, forcefully, and gracefully; how to read and enjoy our literary trea- sures of the past; how to enrich that increased leisure which will otherwise simply become increased boredom, to enrich it by music and painting and those other arts that give meaning to life; and how to work out in our own lives those master principles of living which are already at least two thousand years old. It will indeed be a Brave New World that you teach in; and your work will be one of the keys which make it run. How I envy your chance to help mould this world to come into a better one ! F. C. Biehl Principal