Show THE HIGH SCHOOLS OF SE VIE R SCHOOL DISTRICT hundred students of the three high schools in sevier school district salina richfield and monroe will receive their diplomas this week marking the day they completed their high school studies we hear heartily t congratulate them and in doing so we want to add a few words a about t themselves and about the sch schools they are now ready to leave As for the students we wish to pay that having completed their high school studies they have made a fine start towards obtaining a higher education the start is made now they ought to stay with it and finish there are plenty of people that are good starters but to reach the desired goal they have to develop the essential quality of staying you would not invest much in an automobile that had an excellent self starter but lacked the power to pull its load over all the hills that it would be expected to encounter in its travels the self starter is useless without a continuation of staying and finishing qualities anybody can go out and stait any number ber of things that would be grand for our city but unless he has the ehe staying qualities and the ability to concentrate the powers of the community to pull in unison with his good plans he who has started will soon be found in the ditch alongside tho the progress starts are necessary to any project but blit aayers and finishers are the very lwy bone aud ani jimeve ind and the elements element that put over the big things students you yon have proven yourselves to be good starters Etar star tepa term ro SO ahead and be and fini finishers sheri i in ilk peS irig of of the schools the hundred students are graduating from we are reminded of a word by superintendent of schools frank ballou of 0 washington the school should be made to fit the student not the student the school this Is a very good idea and we are more than pleased to say the school board principals and teachers of our schools are thoroughly imbued with this idea certain things aro are fundamental in any education reading Tal writing ting mathematics history geography are among the but when students have been grounded 1 in fi these fundamentals fundament ali it Is no more sensible to direct all of them in the same way and to take the same courses than it would be sensible to educate all men to be doctors or bricklayers or shopkeepers the old idea of education was time enough to begin to specialize when primary school higher grades high school and college had done their best today to day it is being more and more recognized that there is too much waste of time in an educational cat ional system which insists upon all pupils who go through tho the high schools having a choice of but a few different courses one of 0 the appalling results of such a program originally conceived with the idea of saving money and producing a standardized course Is found in the tact fact that too many boys and girls leave high school without graduating simply because they are not interested and find themselves unable to waste time foll following wIng courses which they feel aro are without benefit to them constructive and alert school authorities ties in many places have seen this long ago diversified work manual training schools wide choice chalce of courses special classes a more elastic graduation requirement and the establishment of junior high schools are all answers to tho same problem we are happy to state that wo have constructive and alert school authorities and constructive construct ivO and alert teachers one hundred graduates prove it |