St Marys High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES ONE ASTUTE MODERN WRITER wams that the real danger of our technological age is not so much that machines will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like machines-that machine-oriented thinking will dominate us to the exclusion of morality, of conscience, of value-iudg- ments. WE HAVE WATCHED with a kind of fasci- nated horror this creeping dehumanization of man spread its mechanized tentacles through nearly every phase of life. People are no more, they are serial numbers. Each person is a row of digits: a case number, a bank account number, a dog tag number, a zip code number, a social security num- ber. Technology can boast of efficiency but little else. . EDUCATION PROBLEMS TODAY, like the hordes of students, waiting in line to regis- ter, are enormous. Off the assembly line they come, not in hundreds but thousands, mass-produced, nondescript, homogenized, compelled by a system to conformity in sub- iect and treatment. The pupil of a mechan- ized school is an IBM card punched full of holes. ' His brains are measured by standard scores: his personality and tastes are catalogued like a seed list, his knowledge is' fed into him electronically. Achievement is less a matter of personal accomplishment than maintaining national averages and fulfill- ing statistics and predictions. Greater rec- ognition goes to the scholar who spews out complex answers like a computer than to the plodding average pupil with a solid gold character. So go the trends of progress . . . CAULDRON 1964 PICTURES St. Mary's in ac- tion. The goals of the SM educative process are still pretty old-fashioned but at least right-side-up. With us the individual per- sons and their very personal blend of tal- ent, ability and attractiveness still hold the upper hand. These students are not identi- cal kemels of com on a cob, nor even look- alike sheep in a'flock. They are distinct in- dividual persons, each endowed with a unique set of values, tastes and emotions. And the most magnificent possession of all' is their personal conscience. IT IS A TIRING RESISTANCE we wage against the tide of dehumanization. But we are con- vinced that, long after every' little red, green or amber light will have blinked out on each computer in the land, the one fact. that mat- ters will be: how did each person fulfill his God-given purpose in life? For, after all, it is precisely because he is responsible for his actions that a person has dignity and worth. , Q:-we Q flh f s ..,, ae- ,...L..N if it -fix f . Jf 57 1--,N :S5 K' ., ,SMQQQ Tx .5 .W 1 cz iffqfrsvsa Q 1-H H-I . ,.s., Jaya?