Napa High School - Napanee Yearbook (Napa, CA)

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lliightj Editorial Down through the ages there have come two distinct types of man. the Thinker and the Builder. One is dependent on the other, and it is only together that they make for development. Never has progress been so pronounced as it has been in our school this last year. Our shop building has turned from myth to reality: a new publication has been started: two honor societies have been formed: and the school itself has grown perceptibly. All these things were made possible by someone who planned and someone who carried out those plans. Sometimes one person is both planner and doer, but usually they are two distinct persons. In all life there will always be needed the co-operation of the thinkers and builders, and the training that we receive in high school is the foundation for that working together spirit which must follow if life is to be truly successful. It is there that the two types are developed. The progress of the high school is the progress of the students in that school, and it is due to this progress and development that the Thinkers and Builders are made what they are. As an example of the Thinker, we may go back to the ancients. Aristotle and his philosophy-what a thinker was hel But the heavens have room for more than one star. Other Thinkers there have been and we pray God that there will always be men who will go below the surface, who will give us thoughts that are indeed builded upon the rocks. Among the ancients I doubt if there lived a greater builder than Julius Caesar, whose mighty empire was the glory of the times. He was the type of man who, unwilling to accept the things as they are, busied himself in making them better. We have been dealing with the Thinker and Builder separately. The time is present when the work of the Thinker and Builder alone is not enough. They must join forces to produce the results that are needed. This is an age of eliiciency and of co-operation. Thinkers and Builders, look about you-is there work for You?

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The Value of an Education The greatest achievement of our country during its history is beyond question its free public school system provided at public expense. Everyone today is willing to regard as self-evident, the statement that a good education is the natural birth right of every American child. As young people, however. let us not fail to appreciate the heritage that is ours and understand the value of an education. From the material side alone careful investigations tell us that every day in high school is worth 325.00 to each student, while each day in college is worth more than 855.00 This is more than the average boy or girl can earn by leaving school and going to work. Not long ago a committee investigating many thousands of people found that a high school graduate's chance to win distinction is nearly three times as great as that of an eighth grade graduate and a college graduate's chance is ten times that of the high school graduate. But our life means more than getting money, no matter how necessary or important that may be. One of our most valuable assets is personality-and education develops personality. Our literary, social and scientific studies are the soil in which personality matures. They hasten its development and give it depth, power, and beauty, for through them we learn of the processes and laws of nature which-after all-are the processes and laws of God. If one is to reach his highest possibilities. his spiritual nature must be developed. This end is accomplished of course through communion with the Divine and through the cultivation of the emotions and feelings and through contact with other people. It is also developed through study of the arts and sciences, of history and literature. The soul is, after all, the thing supreme and of enduring worth, and it should therefore be given every chance of cultivation, for education has a moral. a religious and a spiritual aspect. Our schools are realizing more and more their opportunities and were never so alert to the necessity of instruction in principles of good conduct and morality and right living. From both the material and spiritual point of view, then, an education pays. The knowledge and power are a part of one's working capital. Education develops personal power and gives life and direction to one'spurposes. Itennobles ideals, increases happiness and multiplies opportunities for service. It enlarges one's interest, enriches the mind. and deepens the sympathies. The wise boy or girl will stay as long as possible in the high school and try as hard as he can to get as much college training as he is able. Thus he will be better able to earn his livelihood, and he surely will be happier and more useful to the world. Principal, Earle Crawford. Plmel