Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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IN THE LAST DECADE The Quincy Community College, founded in 1956, makes it possible for local students to complete two years’ curriculum while they live at home before they transfer to other colleges for degrees. The classes are held in public school buildings when they are not in use by regular students. Tuition is nominal and the school is self-supporting. Students who are forced to work in the daytime, attend the college in the evenings on a part-time basis. Development of community colleges throughout the country will provide education for com- petent applicants who cannot be accommodated in over-filled, larger colleges. Salary increases granted to teachers in the Quincy schools, it is ho| cd, will keep our fine teachers here and be an added incentive to young jx ople interested in teaching. The take-home pay of school teachers, many realize, is still too small, but the future promises to be better than the past. When education is analyzed, it is found to have three components. The first is the acquisition of tools—tools of communication, tools of logic, and tools of percep- tion. The second is the understanding of the universe, of one’s neighbors and oneself. These basic components, plus the development of a personal philosophy, total an individual’s education. The crucial problem of education today is to develop statesmen comjxdent to direct a scientific and technological world and to use the products of science and technology benevolently instead of malc- “xJ+y2“Z2, or so says Pythagarous,” quotes Mr. Findlay. “ . . . and then Pickett charged. U.S. History with Miss Wheeler.

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EDUCATIONAL TRENDS “What would a milliamineter read if placed into the circuit? aides Mr. Hayner. Mrs. Smart supervises the feeding of the fish. These past years have been exciting ones for formal education. It is doubtful whether in an equal period of time, more has been said pro and con about anything than we Americans have said about our educational system. Society has discovered that, if it is to preserve itself and advance, its young people must understand their heritage. Although young minds begin as a blank page, experiences and learning write upon these pages. The young people who arc being educated today will be tomorrow’s leaders. Since it will be some time before man leaves the earth to live in outer space, the primary educational problem is to teach men to live together. If man can live peacefully on this earth. Sputnik’s sig- nificance may mean that he will have earned a trip to the stars. Intensified interest and increased effort are paving the way to higher scholastic achievement. Within the last decade, students’ grades have improved and a sig- nificant increase in the number of high school graduates going on to higher education has been noted. Scholar- ship aid has been increased tenfold in the last ten years. Local, state, and national aid is available through loans granted at nominal interest rates. Throughout the city of Quincy in the junior and sen- ior high schools, advanced classes in all fields have been established to provide the opportunity for gifted students to advance at accelerated speeds. 12 'One drop of ba.se, advises Mr. Chrusciel.

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Education at Quincy Prepares “What is the Post’s opinion? inquires Miss Kaml our. volently. Science and technology are neutral and so too, it is believed, are scientists and technologists. We must, through education grounded on the study of earlier civilizations, of literature, philosophy, mathematics, the arts and music, develop leadership which will direct the use of science to a moral tone. Philosophy, litera- ture, art, music, and science are not the properties of one nation. Through these, students become cosmopol- itan and universal and therefore develop a responsibil- ity to all of society. If there is to be co-existence with the rest of the world, education must create a genera- tion that possesses a trained intelligence, plus maturity of personality and integrity of character, who will lead all the world to good health, prosperity, and security. During the past ten years, many new and specialized classes and departments have been added to the Quincy Public School System. One of the most important fields in which this has occurred is among children who were formerly unable to attend school, such as cerebral palsy victims and children with speech, sight, and hearing anomalies. One of the more recent additions has been the establishment of kindergartens for five year old youngsters. These improvements have led to an en- larging of the Administration Staff. Recently a second- ary school consultant was added. The State and Na- tional Governments have begun paying part of the cost of educating pupils whose parents are working for the government or whose families live on government prop- Miss Rankin's comments, “There are a few excellent history papers and sonic—” Learning about Mexico through visual aids in Miss I'atriquin's Spanish II. 14 Me comprcnez-vous, n’est-oo pas?” questions Miss Briand.