The Chemawa American, March 06, 1929, Image 1

OREGON STATZ LIBRARY
MAR - 7 1929
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Wednesday, March 6, 1929
THE NECESSITY OF EDUCATION
By MARGUERITE SEARS, Chemawa Student
Education w ill. assist to adjust us with a finer
development of mind and character.
It gives us the
value of self-reliance when we will be able to depend
on ourselves and not rely upon others for the neces­
sities of life.
Great changes have come over the world since the
people became eager and interested in obtaining an ed­
ucation. This has influenced our lives to a great ex­
tent. Helped us to realize the necessity of being self-
supporting and wholly independent. It tended to the
betterment of mankind. It had taken a long time for
the people of the world to develop a sense of their duties
and purposes and to foresee the conditions of the future.
The difference in languages, in races and color, in re­
ligious beliefs, in forms of government, even in such
matters as dress, other habits and customs, may have
been .some of the causes which held them back. But
since the spread of educational development has greatly
and widely increased throughout the world. Every­
thing seemed to be w active motion. Rapid advance­
ments, better understandings, more desirable associa­
tions, larger acquaintances and development all helped
to create and improve conditions.
Our education will help us in securing high positions,
and enable us to fill better situations, to meet success­
fully the full responsibility of honest service, The
demand of employers is for well-trained and skillful
persons with an education, while ione without proper
training will have many difficulties and few opportu­
nities to securing profitable positions. ?
Knowledge and experience will benefit and equip and
place us on an equal footing with educated people and
help us to meet the trying situations destined to occur
in our future life.
Wholesome social relations, pleasant surroundings
and religious advantages assure for us the satisfaction
of our wants and render us helpful to others in need.
Above all it will assist us in maintaining the govern­
ment which exists to protect our rights, and which
secures for us a better and larger enjoyment of freedom
A ll tends largely to strengthening and allowing happier
conditions for the people.
A happy man is a busy man and an industrious man.
His happiness is more in the doing than in the', ere
matter of money returns. Transferring our days of
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weary work into happier lives makes life worth while.
Education helps to satisfy our desires for a right choice
and the pleasure that we derive from it. A ll depends
to a large extent upon our fitness for it. Therefore, it
is important to choose our vocation carefully and
wisely as to its usefulness to our race, society, or
community. One’s happiness will be acquired from it
if it offers an adequate living to one-self and depend­
ents.
Democracy aims at equal opportunity to enjoy “ life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and Lincoln
Said, “ We are all created equal.”
EDUCATION
By LUCY BAUGHMAN, Chemawa Student
First, we want to see and really know what it
means to us, this wonderful power that enable one
to do many things, and helps to meet the bare facts of
life. Education helps us to overlook some and look
over others in'this* process of livin g.'
What does it give us? Success for one thing, is one
answer. Our parents look to us for advice and for help.
They have confidence in us, and we fulfill this confi­
dence and trust by educating ourselves.
There was a time when we were ignorant and did
foolish things because of that ignorance, but now
through our knowledge and education we see the mis­
takes that were made.
We should be self-reliant, because of education.
We should know how to do big things when we I are
expected to do them. We should not shirk because
of ignorance, but succeed because of knowledge.
We receive our diplomas and feel that we have
earned them. Then we shall feel equal to the edu­
cated people whom we have held up to us as ideals.
Our race is either up-lifted or kept down by just
what we do with our education. Do we go out in the
world with an “ I know,” ,or do we gb back to the
reservations and idle our time away? Anybody can be
as he, himself, wills to be. Then, too, he can be as
sinall and weak as he allows himself to be. j Our race
needs big people and education helps us to be big. So
why not be big and keep big?
Some people have cherished dreams of their children
even before they exist. We should make these dreams
come trues Would you like to dream in vain? They
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