San Antonio Academy - Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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rm Sh Be oe x A Message from the Chairman of the Board There have been ever-changing trends in education since the | earliest days of formal training. When the perapetetic teacher, such : as Socrates, began to teach while walking about instead of being seated in the garden or the atrium of his home, he was viewed with skepticism and hailed as someone to be feared for his was a new way. Today this is still the case since we have changed very little in our ability to accept | change. What was good enough for grandfather should be good enough for his grandson! Lately around the Academy many parents have been hearing about the “new math.” ‘This has caused not a little consternation and some questioning as to whether or not this type of mathematics is going to answer all the needs. It is still too early to be completely definitive in a discussion of the true value of the math in the rather complex vastness of what we b) term “the future.” However, we do know that as long as such a thing as education exists with freedom of choice, it will be the obligation of schools such as the Academy to introduce students to such methods and techniques as tend to be the most advantageous among the changes or trends. Each boy here must have an opportunity to Know what is going on not only in the fields of science, literature, history, geography, etc. . . , but also in the field of education to which he is so closely allied each day. We, as your instructors, and you, as those who have been exposed to all that we can give, face an everchanging world together confident that all have their eyes on those distant horizons but with strong beliefs in the past as well as the future. PAGE 7

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Chairman of the Board PAGE 6

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Major W. T. Bondurant, Jr.