Madison Central High School - Tychoberahn Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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In this magazine we have attempted to compile a comprehensive portrayal of our high school life. We have striven to depict our beloved school in the important events of the current year. 1940-1941, ami to show the part Central High School has and is playing in the fulfillment of the ideal. Democracy, the “Worth of the Individual.” The attitude of the school toward the individual is vastly different today from that of a century ago. The change has not been a sudden shift at any particular time. Rather, it has been a plodding struggle for many years. Today, individual differences arc recognized as a factor in education. Some groups need an academic training; some require a type of training vastly different. Some need trigonometry; others need sheet-metal work. But the total progress made is the democratic ideal of equality based on excellence and respect for all persons. If from this publication there is derived not merely a love for our school days, whose pleasant memories shall give us greatest joy in the years that follow, but also an appreciation of the contribution of Central High School to a living democracy, then we shall have achieved a worthy objective. Material and help from many members of the Mirror Staff were utilized in the preparation of this magazine, together with the aid of the journalism classes, which contributed much of the research, made many valuable suggestions, and prepared the manuscript. The assistance of the Art and English departments also was especially helpful in making this publication possible. —Mary Ellen Farrell

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r CENTRAL . . . Piaae i 9a emo uUic £ducatio i 114 adison Chntmi l-1ic.it S- inMii h.i made a great deal of progress since die lime, nearly a hundred years ago, when two teachers and a handful of pupils comprised die entire lii ;li school system of the city. But it is not in si r alone that the school has progressed. Tremendous gains have been made in teach ing metitods, in the subjects offered, and hi providing the students with extra activities for the purpose of developing their interests. 'Hie purpose of American education to day is to mould the Itest |io sihle citizens for life in a democracy. In order to do this, a school must offer its pupils good cultural background, a study of society and its problems. locational training, a knowledge of the line arts, ami a variety of outside activities. The word pioneer in the title of this article is not meant to imply that (x-ntral was always the first to introduce new theories of education. But, because school officials in this city have always been ijuick to take advantage of new ideas in education, and because Central was usually far abend of the majority of schools in introducing new educational philosophies, pioneer seems a fitting and a just term to use. It is interesting to thumb through the tiinc-yellowcd records of the schools; and to watch, as you read, the gradual development of our present fine example of democracy in education—Central Senior I ligh School. (continued on page 8) H i Timxiimsisv. a ten toe. entered Central II, row Sprint Crren in Febetury, I't-W .1 lot »f hit aitiri-tin I nth,dee bun, . dr a 01 Mitt, and the Uinew. Trnni, jnd trading are Ait A,•Abie . Hr rained Ait Honor pin and won tie I'H i crimett tktt year, rrrriring 4 grid H alt A 4 4 prue. Hub it dan piopArt nr the irmurt. rt t Id I hr pi am to attend tkr Vmrcretty of ll'i contia, entering either the tchool of tour-nahtin or t Amu,try.