Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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Q PTIKIST Education How important is education? Spencer says, Education prepares us for complete living. Education has made men leaders, at all times and in all places. In the ages before the time of Christ, the leaders of the people were men with executive ability increased by their learning. In the lowest type of mankind, the tribes of the innermost jungles of Africa, the medicine man, most learned of his people, is feared and respected by all, even the chieftain. Education has made nations, lack of education has destroyed them. Who, but an educated man, trained in his work, would have been able to outwit the powerful Trojan nation. Yet a Greek did, and by his knowledge a nation was destroyed. At all times education and learning have been the mainstays of nations. When the Chinese refused to accept new learning, they fell from their mighty position as leader of the world, to a nation unable to protect itself. Likewise, Egypt, Persia, India, and many others were thrown from a position of power because they refused new learning. The greatest men of the world have been well-educated men. Napoleon, Bismark, Metternich, the greatest political leaders of Europe -all were learned men. In the first forty years of our own history every president who served had a college education. Abraham Lincoln, though self-educated, a very learned man, was asked by a friend to what he attributed his success. My friend, he replied, education The children of today are indeed fortunate in securing an educa- tion. A hundred years ago, only a few children were able to complete the public schools and fewer still the high school, while a very small minority ever saw the inside of a college or university. There were no laws compelling parents to send their children to school. Children were sent out to Work at an early age. Many cities had no free public schools. Yet within a hundred years a great change has come. Education is no longer some vague idea or dream. It is a reality. Everyone now may have an education. The laws of our states decree that one must be eighteen years of age before one can leave school. We have one of the best high schools in the country, equipped with the latest apparatus. So, now everyone can get an education and by so doing, increase their chances for success. What more would one wish? O 0 Eight

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