Power Memorial Academy - Power Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE SOPHOMORES ST DE TS O THE PATHS TO GRE TER ACCOMPLISHME Freshmen in a school community always seem a little out of place. For eight full years before their entrance to high school, they build and retain a certain depend- ence on the instructor, and, because they are never made to act individually, fall in as a part of a group that is having its education pumped into them by another. The class, rather than the student, acts. High school, then, is something of a shock, and one that is generally unexpected. There have been warnings, but they are swallowed by the flood of enthusiasm for something new and different. And so the freshman, sud- denly stripped of his protecting class, must stand up and act. This fact tends to make the first year of high school something of a period of transition from the unit to the individual. It is a weaning from the suckling education of primary school, and one that takes a full year. The sophomore, therefore is the first appearance of a true high school individual. Ile has learned his lessons by experience, and has had the benefit of a summer to consolidate his learnings, and to decide in what way to use them. He looks at freshmen with a iaundiced eye, for he has withstood the ordeal. The others must prove themselves. . But then again, sophomore year is as much a transi- tory period as first. WVhen he is admitted to the standing of sophomore, the former freshman is self satisfied. He has learned a vast amount in a single year and most of this has been practical knowledge, not restricted to classroom recitation. The knowledge, however, is in a crude form, and must be refined to bc of any use. Ilis knowledge is too rich for the gears of society. lt is there- fore the additional function of the second year teacher to mold these men. They are still plastic, their material is strong, and the mold is not yet broken. lf he is to he a man in the full sense of the word, it is now that he will be fashioned. This, then, is the sophomore. Ile is the rough casting of a man. The rough edges must be smoothed, the fig- ure made strong, the form burnished to brilliancy. Then, as his second years ends, and only then, is he a man.