Raleigh High School - Excelsior Yearbook (Raleigh, IN)

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Page six From left to right: - VVM. O. FOX, GLADYS WALKER, GLADYS AURELIUS, R. F. TAYLOR C. H. MITCHELL, ZELDA MAYSE, UNA GRXEENWOOD. 42 .

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High School Department DECADE or two ago the high schools of our state were lookedupon as being unnecessary in the education of our children. A century ago even common schools were not so very popular. In our early hi tory education was not so much needed as it is now. As our nation has advanced a need for more education and better equipment in the way of skill and mental development has forced upon us a larger conception of what education means and of what it can do for the boy or girl who will have to enter the field of action and depend upon their capacity for earning as a means of sustaining life. A young man or woman who enters into his or her life work now without a good education certainly enters the struggle for existence greatly handi- capped. He or she has not an equal footing with those who are educated. The successful farmer in this generation must be one who knows how to make lands, which his grandfather didn 't know how to uti- lize, produce. The world knows and does more than it used to know and do, consequently the pupil must prepare to enter the greater world if he would not be lost in the whirlpool of the masses. The high school is as truly a part of the necessary educational system as is any other grade. It is a continuation of the work done in the grades. The work done in the grades prepares the student to enter a school course which should open up his vision of things about him, make him see the relations in life and help him not only in his future work but to see and appreciate the surroundings into which he is about to enter. The high school course is becoming more flexible. lt can now be suited to the needs of the individual student to a greater extent than ever before. It is the aim to first find for what the student is best adapted and then help him in every Way in realizing his full powers in that direction. It speaks well for a young man or woman to have creditably completed the course of study in high school. It shows that he or she is ready and Willing to grasp opportunity, when it presents itself. Our high school is a certified high school. It of- fers English, Latin, History, Civics, Algebra, Geome- try, Physics, Physical Geography, Commercial Arith- metic, Botany, Music, Art, Mechanical Drawing, Do- mestic Science, Manual Training and Agriculture in its course. Sixteen units of Work are required for graduation. With an institution as well equipped as this school the men and women of the tomorrow should be amply able to take the responsibilities which will devolve upon them. WILLIAM O. FOX. Qi 'Q I l .i .l H il Page seven