REFLECTIONS ON SCHOOL AIMS 
Education
is the key to progress in all phases of life. The modern world is becoming very
demanding in regard to the amount of education needed. Sociological and scientific
problems are becoming more and more complex and at same time man’s treasury of
knowledge is sweeping aside its present boundaries in a rush of expansion. This, in
turn, is causing the demand for education to increase at a much more rapid pace
than it has done even during the past twenty years.
In view this phenomenon, what is the purpose
of a high school? What is the purpose of St. Joseph’s High School? Is it to produce
trained scientists? Is it to turn out finished products of any kind? It would
seem not. High School is scarcely the beginning of the modern educational
program considered in its entirely, The work of a High school is to begin the
task of making the whole man.
One of the very basic aims of the
school is to develop young men who view their work in life, their relationship
to their fellow men and to thief country with eyes which see right and wrong,
justice and injustice, and with wills trained to seek the former and reject the
latter, In spite of the great need for knowledge, Modern man cannot find his
happiness In this alone, but must realize that it is also essential to order
his life according to the plan of has Creator. The union in man of this heavenly
order and genuine knowledge will produce not only progress but happiness as
well.
Since high school is just the
beginning of the educational process, It is a basic aim of St. Joseph’s to
prepare Its students for their future academic development to lay the
educational groundwork on which a tall and stately tree of learning may grow,
Most of the students passing out from, St. Joseph’s will go on to pursue higher
studies and some, we hope, realizing that the challenge of modern times requires
more than ordinary academic achievement, will proceed to become true scholars.
Perhaps
one of the greatest needs of any one leaving an educational institution is the
ability and desire to read. The man who reads steadily and with discrimination
cannot remain ignorant. For the man who reads the Library is has university:
the Current book his classroom; its author, his teacher. One of the aims of
this school is to produce young men who can read, who want to read and who in fact,
do read.
As you page through this programmed,
You will read and see some of the evidence of the growth of the school we admit
that the process has been slow, but we are happy that at least It has been
steady During the first years of the school we had to concentrate chiefly on acquiring
the academic standard required to prepare students for the Cambridge Examinations,
Although Constant work in this area will always be necessary, the time has come
so provide those co-curricular activities which are so important in the
development of the well-rounded individual.
The drama that will be staged this everything
is an example of such activity. As the school grows and develops, these
co-curricular activities will play an ever more important part in the education
of its students. At the same time, they provide an interesting variety that
makes the school routine more enjoyable and thus, more profitable. These
activities also aid the students in learning to co-cooperate with one another
for the accomplishment of a task. This is training for life as will as for the
classroom.
In brief, at St. Joseph’s we desire to
aid our students in developing a mature sense of obligation, a high degree of
scholastic proficiency, power to make the utmost use of the printed word, and
the ability to co-operate with their fellow workers.
