Wyomissing Area High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wyomissing, PA)

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So it Hlls a most important place in the complicated industri has man needed assistance as completely as he does in this world. As his individuality shrinks in the enormity of his lose responsibility for the movement of events. Here is one of education. Schools must create an awareness of the part the i solution of social problems. Otherwise man's inventions will enstein monster, industrialism will subvert humanity to its reduce the human unit to the status of automatic slavery. be used to advance humanity to higher standards of life w' society. Witness the degrading spectacle of modern wars bet' states. American schools strive to elevate the individual thr As the individual nears a state of satisfaction, all society mo' Work, play, and art are the trinity of human achievements As each human being attains this three-fold end his sens emerges. This overcomes the fatalism and defeatism comm cieties--a feeling that spawns totalitarian concepts and the id into the collective state. Through the schools, the stpfdent se ment, the extension of his creative abilities, the desire to ser and wholesome social experiences. ln these areas are encom meeting this obligation. lt appreciates the task entailed and service in aiding its graduates to meet the problems of a c 9 v A al society of today. Never age when his stage is the environment, he tends to the great tasks of modern ndividual must play in the master him. Like a Frank- vill. Mass production will nd the tools which could .l be employed to destroy ween supposedly civilized l 1 ough various approaches. ves toward the same end. which spell contentment. e of a high life purpose on to many industrial so- ea of individuality merged cures intellectual develop- ve others, physical Htness, passed the work, play and hool is happy to assist in eeks to render the utmost omplicated age. art, needed for a rounded existence Wyomissing High Sc s

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products are not wanted, and therefore, to cut down his expense, he lays off workers. Thus the cycle begins again, and continues until controls, usually by the government, are placed on business. The illustrations used above have dealt only with industry. Let us see their ef- fect upon the home life. At one time the greatest of institutions, the home was the place where most of the goods which were consumed were manufactured. These goods were made or grown by men, sometimes with the aid of the animals. Then came the steam boiler, too large to be housed in the home. The boiler caused the building of new and large manufacturing centers called factories. This moved the production out of the home, and along with it went the men, women and children. Never again will produc- tion be returned to the home because of the nature of mass production. These changes which have been discussed above have brought about many prob- lems, and it is education's duty to aid in the solution of the problems which these changes have created. We attempt to solve these problems through the medium of education. However out of these solutions new problems arise. At present, education is involved in a never ending race with the catastrophe which comes from the chaos of never ending change. As training is being given in the solution of the existing problems, more are being born, and while the study of these go on, more and more come into existence. Also the solutions suggested are often mere theory which have seldom been practically applied. Many do not expect them to succeed even if tried. A great American educator once said- Education is a race with catastrophe. 8

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