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The Chemawa American Printed at Chemawa, Oregon, and Devoted to the / iter eats of Indian Education » 3 MAY a ======================== ==^=======/==== Vol. XXVII Wednesday, October 38, 16&PY -1956] No. 6 THE PRICE OF PROGRESS How often we hear some boy or girl say that it is impossible to learn anything; no use going to school; cannot understand arithmetic, and so on. Occasional ly a boy requests permission to be an all-day worker and give up accademic studies altogether. This arti cle may be over the heads of a good many of our stu dents, but the subject of using your God-given powers is so important, and the possibilities locked up in each one of you students is so tremendous that we hope that you will get our idea in the main, as presented. All through life, young friends, we are constantly surprised by revelations, new glimpses of ourselves, which prove that wre have been using only a part of our forces, often a very small part, because of our ignor ance of the great possibilities locked up within us. Many is the man or woman, who, when unexpected ly thrust into positions of responsibility, developed splendid qualities which they had never previously utilized. They did not even know that they possessed them. The truth is that the majority of us are virtually strangers to ourselves. We know much less of our selves than we do of those about us. The great majority of us never find our highest, most potent, self. If every one ot our young men and women could be awakened to their possibilities, to the potencies that are latent in each of them, so rapid would be the advance, so marvelous would be the change, that a wonderful transformation w’ould take place and as tound themselves as well as all who know them. Dig down into yourself; there is where you will fihd the the power. Most of us look outside instead of inside for our motor force. Since time began the human race has been hunting for help to bear its misfortunes, to improve conditions, but ever seeking relief from without. We are just be ginning to learn that the help that we have been cry ing for, and looking for, is inside and not outside of us. The power to obtain anything we need or can ever want is within us aw’aiting release, opportunity for expression. Many of you may honestly believe that you are do ing your level best in your work, that you are using every bit of energy and to the best possible advantage. But if some great additional motive for exertion should come into your lives today you would astonish your selves and those wrho know you by the undreamed-of strength and added ability you would develop to meet the occasion. We all need to be aroused, to be awak ened to a knowledge of the working powers locked up within each of us. The first step toward living a real life is self-discovery, for no matter how great are one’s dormant possibilities we cannot use any more than wre have discovered. As we understand it, the real problem is how best to show’ youth its possibilities, how to arouse latent energies, how to give the boy and girl a picture of the highest possible self, how to stimulate growth and development. The real education is evolution, call ing out what is in the mind, developing it, exercising the mental faculties until they become vigorous and strong enough to seize, to grip and to hold. The educa tor who by encouragement and inspiration leads youth to self-discovery is the greatest of all educators. You will never make your life count for much until you at least try to find yourself. In order to do this you should put yourself in the most favorable position possible for self-discovery; you should, if possible, keep close to people who have succeeded in a large way along the line of your anjljition. Contact with strong, forceful personalities is a great help to self-discovery. Our sprinters when training for a track meet make better time when running w’ith another. The deter mination to keep up, or get a little ahead, is thus stimulated. Two boys running neck and neck will make better time than either could alone, because each stimulates, urges and inspires the other. All through life you will come across ambition - arousers, character-moulders, and if you are eager to follow the lead they give you, you cannot avoid being benefitted. So we say, if possible, get into an ambition arousing environment. You will find that it will stir you to redouble your efforts, will awaken your slum bering powers, and spur you on to renewed endeavor. The constant effort to better our best, to reach a high ideal, calls out the finest and noblest qualities in our natures. If we w’ere looking for an employe and (Continued on pagt 4)
