Technical High School - Techoes Yearbook (St Cloud, MN)

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ADMINISTRATICDN -l-HE ltalic branch ol the white race in- cludes such nationalities as the French, the Spanish, and the ltalian. I take pleasure in addressing to the students ot the Technical l-ligh School my congratulations for the worlc they accomplished and my best wishes For their success in the various careers for which they are preparing themselves. l gladly seize this opportunity of emphasizing in the year of the George Washington Bicenten- nial, the traditional Franco-American friendship, to which the youth of both countries remains so faithfully attached. Yours truly, Paul Claudel Ambassador from the Republic of France to the 3- United States. . 1- ,Mil ,f ig, alta ,ff 3 fig ..- .-l.,,,,, Ju-.-- Q-....... ,......-...-. ,.......... Q...-as - 'Q ,....-- ,,,....1t... u.-, ...- ,,........... .-,-as -.L -'91, 3

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, v,,, -.,, . i we eg X 1 i iii?-El l ' THE TECHOES A Glimpse of Foreign High Schools ' TlV0if- -1if'1l5 4li -'l'- -l!'1?1f- -f'-'1l71l7 A NUMBER of interesting letters and pamphlets describing the senior high schools of our European and Asiatic neighbors were received from those foreign schools by the Techoes Editorial Staff. Although several were written in their native tongue, the remaining, written in English, disclosed many facts about the school life and activities of these foreign boys and girls. It was revealed that the Gymnasium , or senior high school of Copen- hagen, Denmark, is in very many ways similar to our own St. Cloud High School. The principal of this high school is called a Recktor . He super- vises the teaching in the school, and he himself teaches Greek and Danish six hours a week. G Students first entering the three-year senior high CGymnasiumj must choose at once the course of study they desire to take for the three years. One of three different courses may be selected. A classical language course is offered, with Latin and Greek as the main subjects, and English, German, and mathematics as the required secondary classes. Many students in Copenhagen enroll for the scientific course, in which they may receive training in mathematics physics, chemistry, and English. Everyone is required to take certain common courses in religion, Danish and Swedish languages, French history, science, and gymnastics, and singing. At the end of the school year all the Danish seniors are given the final real- skole examination, which permits them to graduate from the gymnasium and continue school in one of the universities or technical schools. The other Scandinavian countries, Norway and Sweden, have an educa- tional procedure very similiar to the one developed by the Danish educators. Because of the short summers, Norwegian students attend school about thirty- nine weeks of the year. In Germany, if the student has had the proper regular promotion during his progress through school, he will be seventeen when he enters the Ober- prima, its ninth and highest class, and nearly eighteen on completing its work, equipped for admission to a university. Polish boys and girls in high school are taught under a system which is entirely against bookish and verbal ways of teaching. They desire to culti- vate a mental attitude of personal active work and introduce the idea of re- search. Didactic forms of exposition and lectures are gradually being elimi- nated. So in Poland we find during the course of the school day many labora- tory exercises and lessons in handicraft. The school system encourages many self-help societies and literary, scientific, and sporting clubs. A In almost every school represented, except in the gradually diminishing military, uniform schools, we ind that the students are taught to realize that they are but one small part of that family of races and nationalities. Always the necessity for a strict feeling of friendship with other peoples is emphasized in their school curricula. Page 11