Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

Page 16 text:

LIDA LEE TALL

Page 15 text:

CGNTENTS N CAMPUS v FACULTY v SENIORS v JUNIORS v ACTIVITIES v ADVERTISEMENTS

Page 17 text:

l 4 l l l l i l l l RGBCDTS OR MASTERS N I799 when Washington died at his home, Mt. Vernon, industries incidental to the lite on his estate were carried on much as they had been by the workers in Ancient Greece-weaving. curing of meats. building, farming. A factory tor weaving cloth had been established ten years betore at Pawtucket. Rhode Island, the machinery tor which was brought over from England. Washington lived untouched by this great event. lt was to take titty-nay, one hundred-years tor the Age ot Big Business to grow into full being with a new and entirely ditterent civilization at its teet. ln the early days ot Persian civilization, when Alexander ot Greece thought Persia sufficiently important to conquer, we are told that a Persian youth went to school with detinite objectives tor his education-Ill to ride a horse. f2l to throw a spear. l3l to speak the truth. Such a nationalistic aim tor its schools had made Persia strong and great. and Darius a world conqueror. What, in the tremendous machine age in which we live. should be our objectives tor a youth's education that he may tit into the existing order of things? Ill Education tor leisure time. The machine gives man the opportunity to be idle. Idle hours should mean reading good books, enjoying fine music and art, taking real pleasure in lite in the open, having scientific hobbies-indeed. constant experi- menting tor new discoveries. 121 Continuing one's adult education. Dorothy Cantield Fisher in a most dynamic speech, called Learn or Perish , recently pictured how easily, in our civilization, men may die at the top unless they keep abreast with the preponderance ot knowledge available today. merely tor the reaching and making it their own. Q31 Learning to think the truth. Today as never before should our knowledge be profound and our opinions and judgments logically and soundly expressed. lt is not enough, that personal and intellectual treedom such as the world has never known can give us opportunity tor independent iudgment-in addition-we must make depend- able, independent conclusions upon the many and varied questions we are called upon to consider and live by. 14, Learning to be leaders. The great paradox in modern America is the individualization program in our schools which allows children to be studied individually tor their achievement and treated diagnostically tor their deficiencies. but also stresses group work and leadership. What type ot leaders shall we be-racketeers, or seers: master teachers, or thinkers? This robot age must not enslave us: it is leaving all men treer to become the masters ot machines. Agrarian civilization has passed. Can we live up to this stupendous industrial era or will it crush us? LIDA LEE TALL Nine 14633-1