Morgan Park High School - Empehi Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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NON SCHOLAE SED VITAE DISCIMUSH This was a good motto in days gone by, but today, things are somewhat dif- ferent. School now is not merely a preparation for lifeg it is life-real, earnest, and not a dream, and its opportunities are not so often misused or cast away as then. At least, that is the theory. There was a time when son would follow in the footsteps of his father. If his father was a doctor, a doctor he would be. He might not get to be much of a doctor. And then there would be regrets and a growing conviction that he would have done better at something else. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest Are these: 'lt might have beenl' l' Thus he lays the loss of his opportunity to the school. The theory of modern education is that he should have found himself earlier, that he should not have been fitted for some particular career, but that he should find out for himself what he is fitted for. In a general way, schools of today are trying to bring out the best there is in an individualg to give him a purpose in life and confidence in himselfg to lead him to seek out the truth for himself rather than to accept slavishly what he is toldg to learn when to say yes,' and when to say no',g to make a man of himg in short, to build character. As in a building, Stone rests on stone, and wanting the foundation All things are wanting, so in human life Each action rests on the foregoing event, That makes it possiblef, Civis Jllurus Est. Q.-. ' Sixteen