Wurtland High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Wurtland, KY)

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F o r e w o r d SENIOR CLASS OF 1962 You have arrived at a key milestone in your life. All of you will have to make a distinct adjustment to the new avenues which will open to you. If we have been, in even a small measure, successful here you leave carrying the tools necessary to your adjustment. Education is a tool, to be applied in solving new situations which arise and is never a panacea to solve or cure all those things which may confront you. We should apply a few more words to the old phrase, a person isn't educated until he realizes how little he knows. The phrase, and is willing to learn the things he needs to know. should be added. No person knows all that there is to know. The educated person, how- ever, at least should be aware of the gaps in his knowledge, be able to fill in those gaps and thus be better able to serve himself and his community. Above all make the acquaintance of good books above and beyond those used in for- mal education. This is one of the most important habits one can form. Read many books and above all, read good books. A democratic society is only as strong as its weakest individual. Let's build strong individuals through education so that the total structure of our way of life may be strengthened. I wish you a happy, full, and useful life. Ben Webb