Moorestown Senior High School - Nutshell Yearbook (Moorestown, NJ)

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 A fragile plant that gathered strength — We guess at where, and how, and when— The public school becomes at length — The flower of life, the hope of men. —Anonymous.

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IT hat we need most in lijc is someone to make us do the best we can. —Emerson. MARY E. ROBERTS, Ph.D. High School Principal

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 A NEW DEAL IN SCHOOLS Jane White, '34 AN INTERESTING paradox is presented by a comparison of the progress of industry and of education. Industry has been moving very rapidly in the direction of extreme mechanization of all its processes. The schools have been moving more in the direction of cultivation of human intelligence and human appreciation. 1 he supply of man-power exceeds the demand; consequently, quality is demanded of the worker. Mechanical skill alone docs not render service acceptable; the essential skills must be accompanied by sincerity of work, strength of will, integrity of character. This new note in education, emphasizing, as it does, the personal element, is not confined to the United States. All the countries of the civilized world are recognizing the importance of developing in the children of today, who will be the citizens of the tuture, those fine personality traits that, nurtured and refined by culture and practice, blossom into sterling character. The following “Ten Commandments for School Children,” which comes from Czechoslovakia, is indicative of this emphasis: 1. Love your schoolmates; they will be your companions for life and work. 2. Love instruction, the food of the spirit. Be thankful to your teachers as to your own parents. 3. Consecrate every day by one good, useful deed of kindness. 4. Honor all honest people; esteem men but humble yourself before no man. 5. Suppress all hatred and beware of insulting vour neighbor; be not revengeful but protect your own rights and those of others. Love justice and bear pain and misfortune courageously. 6. Observe carefully and reflect well in order to get at truth. Deceive not yourself or others anti beware of lying, for lies destroy the heart, the soul, and the character. Suppress passions and radiate love and peace. 7. Consider that animals also have a right to your sympathy anti do not harm them or lease. 8. 'flunk that all good is the result of work; he who enjoys without working is stealing bread from the mouth of the worker. 9. Call no man a patriot who hates or has contempt for other nations, or who wishes and approves wars. War is the remains of barbarism. 10. Love your country and vour nation but be co-workers in the high task that shall make all men live together like brothers in peace and happiness. Let us keep in mind the philosophy underlying these “Ten Commandments for school children in far-away Czechoslovakia, as we review the dominant notes struck at the meeting of the National Education Association, Department of Superintendents. . (Continual on page 14) CLASS OF 1934 Pag 11 —