Show Ch Chipman Writes T Texas Educator L. L D. D said the nations nation stewards are areat arent at nt their best when using wide caution Culture and nothing else will make it worthwhile to be alive The treasurers of preceding culture are difficult to distin distinguish from its ite dross drol as man confronts con on fronts each d dayd Y 1 new existence His greatest danger is that he will mistake one for the other discard discard dis dis- dis card iho he treasure and hold fast to 10 the dross What schools can n do to help helpman helpman helpman man distinguish between trease treas treasure ure ire and drace id its most important important tant function in the Space Age or any other lage age nut Due the school schools is s not in essence an abstract im impersonal impersonal m. m personal institution It is s a collection col lection of persons Among those I persons stands a superintendent of schools Survival of the Nation Had I the power to construct an America for or the Space Age every father and mother would have at least 15 16 minutes each day in which they could tell their children what to do Every man would have a shot at 24 hours of life a week that he could control Every farmer would have ten acres on Which he could plant he ibe wanted to w plant raise what he could and sell it H for what he could get Every school child could earn possession of a daily dally period when he could program his ls own learning and nd tell the machine what to Ita do Governor Sanford of North Carolina said Education la Is AmerIcas AmerIca's most crucial necessity I for tor the remainder of thi ten cen- I en-I 1 I tury We need your leadership in do seeking Becking ways of improvement Are we we the nation getting full dev development of all our human resources resources resources re re- sources Are we the parents finding that our children get all they can handle The time has come when Amerl Americans ns everywhere must murt stop expecting th the teacher to work loral tor lor toran I an al r apple apple and and a green apple at that Americans must Dust give more than a Q yearbook dedication at re re- We must acknowledge In ht many ways whys their Importance I Ito to the strength and the survival of oC the nation What Is the fundamental for military defense in an age of ot space and aDlI rockets Education I What is to the hope of developing state omen I end and nd lenders leaders and a comprehending com com- citizenry Education What is s the best beM device for tor Increasing in increasing In In- creasing economic skills lifting the income creating strength I wealth health and a good life mer Education I From all nil of this system In differences dif dif- we need to seek out and develop the he Intellect capable of I building atomic J submarines the tough mind capable on triumphing triumph triumph- I ing over all knowledge knowledg known and unknown Deprived Areas The areas reas have the best beat schools they have the resources re re- re-I re sources they have havethe havethe II I the best teachers What ere are the disadvantaged people what are II slum and tenant areas to do We I move now as us far lar In five years as as' as once man moved in fifty or a I hundred or even a thousand What will twill happ happen n if 11 one I part of I our society continues to make rapid progress while the deprived ar areas te loee lose position We must meet this problem Inthe Inthe in inthe the school in the community and andIn In government We have to find t I opportunities we have to uncover talent talen and skills and intellect Our cho e 13 do not Intend to Ignore ignore ignore ig Ig- ig- ig nore the human resources of the disadvantaged children We can can- not I Major Robert M. M I. I White USAF pilot of the X 15 rocket stated I 1 am trying to atone for the trouble uble I caused my own teachers r by actively arguing the cause Muse of education today surprisingly enough en enough ough I have considerable opportunity opportunity to do so There 1 is something about our X 5 manned research rocket program pro program gram ram which haa has gripped the Imagination Im of today's space minded apace minded I youth I t receive ot of mail The bulk is from the 10 to 18 year age group and most of them seek advice on how to become an astronaut Success Through Education I What I tell them Is 16 that the theto stairway to the stars Is built of school books Space Is the last great physical frontier It appeals to adventurous youth just Juet as theair the theair theair air appealed to boys of my day the West to American youth of the late and the sea to those of more remote years But nut today the Job of being a pk pioneer neer has become so technically complex compter that thae it is s no longer possible pos sible for a young man to shoulder his sea bag load his Kentucky i rifle or climb cUmb into a e. cockpit with only a couple hours instruction and go out to take part In the march of progress The gateway to space is through the doors of our schools and there is no conceivable able short short cut for a young man with such euch ambitions The following excerpt is taken I from the discourse ourse of Lt General James E E. E Briggs of the Air Train Training Training lIng ing Command at Randolph Air Force Base It is s well to reMember remember remember re re- member that throughout history It it has often been the professional military man who in peace time braved the frontiers of the unknown un un- unknown known and pushed pus them back Lewis and Clark explored the Louisiana Purchase in 1804 The National Geographic Society put putA A Admiral Byrd in command of ot its Us aerial l expedition to the Arctic The building of the Panama Canal v. v wad vaa a 0 military project even to the medical conquest of yellow fever I I Space Outlays I Space activities have brought benefits to the whole economy in u such areas as communication navigation weather medicine metallurgy ill u anymore any more The Vice said aid last March It U la is U 1 con conn conservatively set that our space spare outlays will yield two dollars for every dollar Invested The Weather flu Bu reau estimates the savings twinge from our space advances will wilt soon run Into billions yearly through such feats as the three days advance warning of Hurricane Carla I Judge Harold Medina in acceptIng accepting accept accept- ing lag the American Education Award took the opportunity to doA do doa dolittle a little of what he calls preachIng preaching preach ing lag the gospel the gospel the goc gospel of our liberties which he summed up in two disturbing points l t tA A J J. Glenn 1 The The teaching of the Bill of Rights flights in our high schools Is woefully woe woe- fully Inadequate If the boys boY'S and girls know parts of the first eight and the Fourteenth by rote and nothing more they will not have the slightest notion of the application of these constitutional con mandates to the affairs of everyday life Ufe 2 The 2 The time to start the minds of people le working on such matters OB as Freedom of Speech Unreasonable Unreasonable Unreason Unreason- able Searches and land Seizures Due to Process of Law and the rest is when they are ore young and this means moons while they are in high 8 school as many of them do not pursue their formal education beyond beyond beyond be be- yond tide this point On the same program with Lt Gen Briggs and Major White was Astronaut John Glenn Jr who addressed the audience on Book Learning Isn't Everything Colonel Glenn thrilled last years year's session at Atlantic City ashe as ashe ashe he circled the earth three times to become the first American Astronaut to make such a flight night The Tuesday programs were frequently interrupted as conven conven- flocked to the television sets seUl to watch the progress of Oils his launching flight and recovery I IOn On the first anniversary of his flight Colonel Glenn presented presented his capsule Friendship 7 to the Smithsonian Institute for Its permanent permanent per per- manent display and use |