Woodstock Academy - Spire Yearbook (Woodstock, CT)

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The student is not only concerned with learning factual material, but also with im- proving his perspective of his own life. In the classroom, he probes the ideas that have motivated men over the centuries. He sees how men have applied their ideas to the so- ciety in which they lived. The stock charac- ters of Plautus he finds in modern society; he sees that the observations of Shakespeare give insights into a basic human nature. The student studies the laws man has set up to ex- plain and put in order the workings of every- thing from atoms to the universe. The Pyth- agorean theoruin, he learns, is a part of space technology; biological knowledge increases with each passing year. The student sees man’s efforts to create. He observes the work of Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Wyeth; he lis- tens to the music of Beethoven, Bach, Paul Simon, and Carole King. The student learns also of man’s shortcomings and failures. He looks back on slavery, war, injustice; Viet- nam is a present reality, a Presidential elec- tion causes him to think of future in- volvement in society.