South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Sitr Ualur nf lf-firltanr? in tui nt £ifc Why is it that the work of different pupils in school varies so in quality? Many would answer, “Luck! such and such a person is so smart that he can get his lessons easily, while I have to work and work, and then never get them.” This may be true to a degree, for all people are not gifted alike, and quickness to grasp ideas and to learn principles is given to some, while others have more physical power. Yet every one must put good, conscientious effort into his work to accomplish anything. No one can get along without study. But, one characteristic, above all others, counts in the rating of a pupil’s work, and that is self-reliance. What do we mean by the term “self-reliance.” and how do we apply it to school work? It is that in a man which makes him independent of his neighbors and fellow-men. This is a quality too often lacking in a student when preparing his lessons. It is so easy to ask some one else to translate a difficult passage in Latin or to solve some problem for us. The lesson may be learned in much less time and with far less effort, so why is it not all right? The results of this dependence on others speak for themselves. A poorer grade of work is done thruout. What is learned so easily is also easily forgotten, and bv recitation time it often has so far slipped the memory that one can recite only poorly. Besides, a why? is often asked that cannot be answered, because it has not been really studied out. A pupil generally realizes this, and has no confidence in himself, so he halts and stumbles, making a bad impression on teacher, classmates, and himself; when a test comes lie has no thorough mastery of the subject to rely on, and so resorts to carrying small papers, covered with notes, or having figures and words written on the back of his tablet or even on his cuffs to which he may refer, and thus he gets a mark which he does not deserve, and it stands for nothing to himself. Of course, everyone who is not entirely independent in his studies, docs not go thus far, but it is always easy, once one has started in a wrong way, to go on from bad to worse. And every time he lets some one else do his work, he deprives himself of just so much mental training. In the end it is not what we learn, or the marks we get in school, that count, but this training of the mind. Then, too, if a person does not begin in youth in the schoolroom to be self-reliant, when does he expect to begin? He will depend on others for help in everything, and will never rise to the top, whether it be in business, in professional, or in social life. On the other hand, the value of self-reliance is immeasurable. While the work at first may be very poor, especially if one has been allowing others to do his work for him. in the end the results gained will far out-balance a few low marks. What we learn in school will very probably be entirely forgotten in a few years of business life, but we shall have had such training that the mind will be strong, able to think and to act readily, and we shall go ahead 14