Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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u personal word to the students WRITE THESE worms TO YOU on an evening in late June when the corridors are strangely silent, the playing fields at peace and our hilltop settling into a quiet summer of preparation for the year ahead. At such a time one feels sharply the contrast with the school as you know it, a place possessed by the teeming energy of one hundred and iifty young men engaged in fthe pursuit of understanding the World around them and seeking their rightful place in it. And so, looking back on our year together I trust that it has given each of us a truer knowledge of ourselves and, even more important, a better understanding of the people who fill our lives. In this sense. the purpose of education is self- knowledge. This year, then, has been one of good growth for you, if you know more surely something of your strengths and weaknesses, your abilities and limitations. Through such knowledge you are able to make of yourself a better citizen of this community and thus transmit this City not only not less but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. Self-knowledge of course may never be static. It is a never-ending process, for we change and develop through our experiences as we grow towards maturity. This growth, however, is based on something that does 11ot change, - our belief in the Christian ideals passed on to us by the Society of Friends. From them we inherit our emphasis on the value of each individual and thus endeavour to help him fulfil his potentialities so that he may make a useful contribution to society. The aim of self-knowledge is therefore directed, not to selfish goals of materialistic success, but to the ideal of service to ones fellow man. If you share this conviction, you have well understood the purpose of the Society of Friends in founding our school. At this year 's end, I feel very grateful to all of you who have helped us work toward the beloved Community . In particular, I should mention the members of our graduating class who set a tone and a spirit from which we all profited. Both to those Who are leaving and to those returning in the autumn, I send my best wishes and my hope that we shall all continue to strive towards the ideal and sacred thingsi' for which Pickering College stands. .fir.,,.,1., m Seven