Slippery Rock University - Saxigena Yearbook (Slippery Rock, PA)

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SEATED: Miss Matheny, Miss Coslcy, Miss Reed, Dr. Wagonhurst, Miss Ray, Miss Dean. STANDING: Miss Brown, Mr. Helntzclman, Mrs. Arnold, Miss Brown, Miss Thompson, Miss Kramer, FACULTY Miss ldtse, Miss Berry. the recognition due them, they seem to gain a negative happiness only in imposing their own petty whims upon young men and women whom they could help much. The tragedy lies in the fact that they miss opportunities for self-development, for no one can raise a person to any plane without rising with him. Such instructors never realize that the respect shown them by their students is not for themselves but for the dignity of the positions they hold. Yet it is seldom that we find a really tolerant person among teachers, for their very specialization narrows their understanding of problems beyond their own, breeds a dogmatic attitude, and makes them intolerant of all opposition. Every college needs faculty members who are thinkers, whose values transcend mere academic wisdom, who refuse to ignore higher spiritual and mental values. And by spiritual we do not refer to that host of creeds and accretionary matter that has blinded us to the very creative purpose. Must these questions ever be discussed in the light of particular dogmas, beneath the benign smile of some favorite god? ls there no echo of ethereal melodies that strikes an answering chord in all men's hearts? CAfter all, there are no atheists, ,we differ only in our manner of believing.D If the end of life is happiness, here and now, based on material possession, then annoint us in the holy-of-holies of organized. ignoranceg deaden us to the beauty, the calm, the serenity that can come by thought alone, teach us to mimic the staid walk and mysterious look of ones who are stagnating in their dank pools of

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have never shifted 'gears on a mortar box to receive a coveted degree, many never will. Com- mendable as are attainments in fields of higher education, there are other qualities that mark instructors as real educational leaders to any body of students. If we must limit these for lack of space, we should at least wish to name three: toleration, courage to think, and discontent. To be an educator a man or woman must be tolerant. The 0EllC1'lll1ll'1'S theories, he is willing to admit, may be as good as his own. Sometimes, if only occasionally, even a student's opinion may be worth considering. Such a teacher's heart is in tune with the great heart of the worldg his sympathies are broad enough to include the dreams and problems of all under his supervision. There are persons who, by some means, have fastened themselves like malignant parasites on the body of every college staff. They live in a world dark and narrow and are more to be pitied than censured. Because of the loneliness of their own hearts or failure to gain what they must consider SOCIAL SCIENCES Mr. Ilclm, Miss Brubaker, Mr. IIcudInntI. LIBRARIANS --Standlngl: Miss Frampton, Mrs. Ilnnscn. Seated: Miss Stewart. SCIENCE V-Sitnnlilinfgz Dr. Dlmit, Dr. Waldron, Mr. Lady, Mr. Shular. Scared: Miss Gray, Mr. Vincent, l'. ll . l

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conventional ideasg teach us to perform our asinine hocus pocus for the benefit of credulous clod-hoppersg smother us with standardized this, that, and everything, and finally turn us out, stamped and approved, as good docile products who, because we have never even heard of think- ing, can not and will not cause any trouble to the established order. If the purpose of life is self-development, however, and we are not to go out one of a vast herd baaing a standardized baa, we need educators who realize that development of their student's potential forces can never be accomplished by puttering around on the surface of their minds. Education must proceed from withing if this is true, why should we troop into classes day after day where some one goes through the approved ritual of feeding us a few petty facts that we could much more comfortably read at home, and then gravely pronouncing either a benediction or a malediction over us as we wend our lowing way across the lea. These are they who will draw out our latent possibilities, and after all that is the purpose of education. C- K- L- IIEALTH EDUCATION--Standing: Mr. Thompson, Mr. Cottrell, Dr. Gallagher, Mr. Dodds, Miss Sanderson, Miss Compton. Seated: Miss Matheny. ARTS-Standln51:Mlss Gerherich, Mrs. Arnold, Mr. Miller. Seated: Miss Griffin, Mr. Hclntzelman. - any A 'WY