Paris District High School - Yearbook (Paris, Ontario Canada)

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2 PARIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOK Jfnrzmnrh This year 1938 will probably be long remembered for the Czech crisis and the Munich agreement. We can not tell whether this is the beginning of an era of peace or but a truce. In these troublous times when people are thinking deeply concerning the relative merits of democracies and dictatorships, principals naturally re-examine their methods of administration. Shall they have regimenta- tion? Shall they train a generation to obey without thinking? This is much easier for both teachers and students but it is contrary to our Anglo- Saxon ideals. If the school is to be run on democratic principles, there must be very great respect for precedents. Youth is naturally radical. This radicalism, unguided and uncontrolled, leads to anarchy, which is just as objectionable as the unquestioning obedience of the people of the totalitarian states. lt is difficult, very difficult, for teachers to guide without destroying initiative, to allow freedom without license and to train students to think independ- ently and constructively. There is a real danger that conscientious teach- ers will sacrifice health in their endeavour to carry out these ideals. In the future, extra-curricular activities will play a still greater part in the development of the character of our students. The new course of studies demands so much of the teachers in their classroom work that it is quite impossible to have as many after school activities as we would wish. Boards of Education may well consider the advisability of increasing their stais to provide more teacher-time for the teaching of options and the di- rection of special activities that do so much to develop character and dis- tinctive personality. The present generation of high school students will soon have thrust upon them the very great responsibility of maintaining personal liberty in Canada. If they fail to give constructive leadership, if they fail to perform fully their duties as citizens, Canada will drift towards fascism or com- munism. Surely this is the lesson to be learned from the tragic European events of 1938. The old order changeth, yielding place to new. C. Ward Butcher.