University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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FORREST R. POLK PRESIDENT Schools build up the store ol knowledge in an orderly fashion and in them skills are developed; it is the hope of the friends of education that the knowledge and skills acquired in schools will surpass in extent and usefulness to society those picked up incidentally elsewhere. Then the people have a right to expect that the beginnings of wisdom may appear in the schools, but they have no right to deplore the results of schooling if wisdom, fullblown, is not evident in the sayings and actions of every graduate. And the further hope of discerning friends of freedom is that understanding may come from wisdom, when the latter has had time to develop through seasoned experience. Skills and limited knowledge and the beginnings of wisdom in the schools, the ripening of wisdom and the fruit of understanding in the school of experience. The theme of this book is well chosen but the realization of personality is elusive; in youth we can look for those characteristics which may with skill, knowledge, wisdom, and understanding constitute a true personality. We should bear in mind that an agreeable personality depends largely, very largely, upon one’s actions in a particular situation,- let the student hold up an ideal and he may, as did Ernest in Hawthorne’s tale, attain his ideal. Here suggested is one of the pre-eminent reasons why the public can afford teachers of superior character, refined personality, and high ideals,- they may serve as examples to their pupils. It is a responsibility not to be lightly undertaken and few can pass the exacting test.