Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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A free, democratic society, seeking no uniformity, relies on the open methods of popular discussion and persuasion in the areas of both official government activity and that lying beyond the limits to which constitutional government can go. This process, almost always time consuming, and often frustrating as well, can hardly ever have the immediate efliciency of totalitarian institutions. It does gain, however, an effectiveness of decisive importance in the long run, since it capitalizes on the universal tendency of man to want to support vigorously decisions in the making in which he feels he has participated. A democratic state is the product of-a paradox. It can perpetuate itself only by recognizing that the individual human beings who have made its existence possible take precedence over, and are more important than, the state itself. To circumscribe the purposes and thoughts of human beings as individuals by asserting that the individual exists for the state is to stultify the force most essential to the state's entire existence, namely the creative power of the human spirit. To cut itself off from this productive potential is to lay the basis of its own eventual destruction. In its desire to achieve mass education, America is destroying this very element. The school in a democracy may be likened to a melting pot. VValter Lippman describes a Fourth of july pageant in the course of which individuals representing many nationalities and dressed in native costume entered a huge wooden and canvas pot under the guidance of an elementary school principal. At the call of the latter they emerged from the opposite side of the pot, each uniformly dressed in derby, coat, pants, vest, stiff collar and polka-dot tie, and probably with an Eversharp pencil in the pocket. Let us remember that the equality of man entitles the individual to no more than equal opportunity and that unless every person is allowed to achieve his potential, American education will produced a mass of stereotyped mediocrity. Daniel Kapustin

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I fix my eye upon the Sun And climb from my cradle I walk and watch the Earth Pass beneath me, Myriad portals drifting Calmly past the edge of Sight and myriad portals More take form In the distance. I touch a stone And feel within its helpless D The surging beating pulse Of this my World And this my place Within my world. I fix my eye upon the Stars eath And wander through the vastest Held And breathe the lusty wonder Deep rich evening air And mountain pine And seashore surf And the Warm lush heady Of the pasture. eyes quiet truth Worth a heart and heart In chastest frenzy. And then beyond The highest peak of life I Hx my eye on Heaven's And through the swirling Crystal blue and shining Light and Distant shimmer Trumpet sound I see my God. my Love floor Barry Sheinkopf