Madera Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Madera, CA)

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INTELLECTUAL MAN THE AWFUL SHOCK which ac- companies the mind's discovery that the universe is incomprehen- sible breaks some men; others it sanctifies. But left to the rest of mankind is the task of explaining human experience in rational terms. Some would call the pro- cess a search for truth, others an exposition of revelation. No mat- ter, for the work of man is the same in both: to examine experi- ence and attempt explanation; then to test the explanation, dis- carding the unsound and building on the sound. Thus, a Heraclitus will propose that fire underlies all creation; a Plato, ideal forms, and an Aquinas, essences. But no ex- planation has yet been entirely successful. Each, however, has been valuable, if only for serving as a point of departure whereby men may appreciate more fully the essence of life. But man's experience has been not only of the natural world, but of himself also; and he is of even greater incomprehensibility. Man knows only that he is at once a part of, yet somehow different from the rest of creation. He knows also that he will never understand himself without understanding his universe. — Nea ae ASS B a x a Ps 7 = + Someta es cea Se — os So By, ar PrP oS = al SS SX SSS ARS —— SSSR SS oS

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aay — 5 sx SUPERINTENDENT Many years ago Thomas Jefferson wrote: ''l know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome direction, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion through education. Accomplishment and performance take place within a framework of expectation. Accomplishment and performance should come from all students—not just the aca demically talented. Our complex democratic society today is totally dependent upon the capacity of all of its people to read and write, to make intelligent judg ments, and to a ct on the basis of extensive information. The intellectual man, then is that one who, regardless of native talent, develops his mental processes and abili ties to their utmost. RINALDO WREN 10