McLain High School - Highlander Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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THERE IS ANGTHER WAY Sylvester Gibson, Principal Our schools preach a humanistic kind of philosophy, but they tend to practice something quite different. There's a certain amount of dof- fing of the hat to things like sharing and kindness and making choices. But these ideals, principles, values - whatever you want to call them don't really penetrate into the classroom. The students of today confronts many more choices than did the stu- dents of yesterday. I-Iefshe is surrounded by a bewildering array of altematives. Modern society has made himfher less provincial and more sophisticated, but the complexity of these times has made the act of choosing infinitely more difficult. Areas of confusion and conflicts abound: politics, religion, love, and sex, family, friends, drugs, materialism, race, work, death, leisure time, school, and health. Each area demands decisions that yesterday's students were rarely called upon to make. We make choices all the time, thereby indicating preferences of val- ues. I believe, the choices which the future will call for demand more than glib, whimsical, or conforming choices. Education must teach a process of choosing. Many people take the first choice or the first good choice that comes along. This is the way I was taught, so this is the way I teach . You mean there are altematives? What else is there to do? The future will offer us new altematives for our personal lives and for the society. Whether we embrace each altematives as it comes along, or whether we take our time and choose from several alternatives, could mean the the difference between enormous disappointment and waste or more effective decisions. Everyone wants hisfher children, when they grow up, to be able to gpide their lives as mature, responsible citizens. Yet at every turn of t eir lives, most young people's choices are so prescribed and limited that they never have the chance to learn to guide their lives until they are thrown in the water and told to swim. We need to create environ- ments in which young peo le can make choices - about their beliefs, about their behaviors, andpabout the course of their own educaion. There is no shortcut. 1 ..,p V, p,V:p t'et I ' . .Q K if

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