SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Higher education is deemed necessary in present-day society be- cause it enables the individual to adjust to the dynamic world of which he is a part. During his formative years he may not only study the humanities and the natural and social sciences, but also achieve greater understanding of people, enabling him to know better the contemporary members of his society. While at college the individual may also find a joy and freedom of living which comes, to a certain degree, with independence, but more basically, I feel with an appre- ciation of the more important things life has to offer. He learns to give something of himself to each enterprise in which he is engaged. The teacher particularly must know himself best of all. Only by knowing himself can he expect to be capable of comprehending the actions of those around him. It logically follows that the person with the greatest human understanding will be the most successful educator. These attributes which I have mentioned cannot be completely acquired within the relatively short period of four years. A lifetime consumes us before all our goals can be realized. But we can move toward a goal in much less than a lifetime, in even the brief space of our particular college generation. Dorothy Jean Drewes, Editor 4