McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE SCHOOL or LIFE --5SIi2IIQ5-- The 5212001 of LQ? Every man, woman, and child has or has had at some time in his or her life an ambition to do or be something. This earth could not exist if there was no ambition in its peoples. Ambitions vary a great deal with each individual, but there is One ambition every person should have, that is, the ambition to learn and become educated. It is ambition that has made this world what it is to-day. From the very beginning it was the desire of man to live that has created within him the ambition to learn and become educated, for his life depended on this desire. The world has become educated from the experiences of others. If it were not for Robert Fulton's ambition as a boy to learn what steam was, and its possible forces, we would not have the steamboat, the railroads, the large manufacturing concerns, and thousands of other businesses that rely on steam for their very existence. Think what a great set back the world would be witnessing if it were not for Sir Isaac Newton's ambition to learn why the apple fell from off the tree. Truly these are causes for the advancement of education as is brought about in the public schools of to-day. It was the ambition ofour noble forefathers to migrate to the shores ofthe new America. Just stop and ponder over what this noble ambition of theirs has really meant to us. It was also their ambition to become independent, in which they were successful after a century and a half, that made our glorious United States of to-day possible. All of these facts which I have mentioned were purely and simply their ambitions to become educated. Our desires to learn, however, are more easily acquired now than in former days. In this age, modern science and mathematics and other educational studies are more developed than formerly and because of this development, the community has been able to build more schools and promote education, so that our ambition to learn is much more easily acquired. We are also favored in this undertaking by a splendid Board of Education, which has uppermost in its mind the promotion of education. Although we have all these wonderful advantages, yet there are obstacles in the road. We are offered charity scholarships by various community organi- zations, but despite this there are a great number of boys and girls who are unable to further their education because of seemingly financial difficulties. Even as great a set back as this does not stop their ambitions to learn, for they will work night and day to earn their way through school. Truly this is ambition at its best. One might say OH'-hand that the greatest amount of education is received at school, but a more thorough investigation will prove that the greatest amount is acquired after school days. Where would the medical world be to-day if the young doctor did not keep abreast of times by reading the medical journals? Indeed there would be untold suffering, if he failed to keep up to the minute on his professional work. So it is with everybody, a great amount of education remains to be acquired after leaving school, for the education acquired in schools is only a foundation for that acquired in the School of life' LOUIS H. NIEBLING