OUR CHILDREN
Patri, Angelo
Our Children By Angelo Patri THIS is the month of graduations and a host of children and young folk will be graduated from the schools. Their first feeling is one of relief. They are free of...
...Every year in school subtracts from his ignorance, his weakness, and his helplessness in time of emergency...
...301, in which he urges obedience training from babyhood...
...Education is what puts strength into one's mind and body...
...It adds to his intelligence, to his ability, to his skill and to his understanding...
...Persuade youth to stay in school, to work hard, to look toward tomorrow, for when that day comes it will be this school child, this student who must live.it, guide it, and bend it to his own good...
...Wages are high and opportunities are many, and it is easy to tell oneself that it is duty calling...
...Youth is the learning time...
...To begin with, the places that are open now because of the war, will vanish over night when peace is declared...
...Every day of it is going to pay interest in terms of success as long as life lasts...
...It is not duty that calls a child, whose education is unfinished but inclination, the inclination to be free of school, of home, of discipline, and to be grown-up and independent...
...The nation will be in the hands of today's youth, and on the quality of that youth the quality of this nation rests...
...That greatly desired quality, obedience, is discussed by Angelo Patri in his booklet No...
...Then what...
...for gathering- useful experiences...
...It is then that the body and mind are in the best condition for learning...
...Once school is left behind and a job taken on, the attitudes of body and mind are changed and it is difficult to get back into the attitude of a learner...
...The obedient child is the child who makes fewer mistakes...
...They should stay in school and be graduated from high school, vocational schools, or, if they are to be professional workers who need specialized courses, from the colleges...
...It is better to stay in school and finish the course and then go to work...
...A job at a low level for the rest of one's life...
...Better To Finish School There are many places open to young people today and the temptation to enter the working fields is strong...
...They are free of lessons and the routine of school life...
...They will want to get to work and earn their way...
...Those who have prepared themselves for useful work, graduates of vocational schools, colleges, universities, are ready, but those from the elementary and junior high schools are not prepared in body, mind, or skills and it would be a tragic mistake to allow them to stop school...
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...Education Pays Interest Every year in school adds to the power of the pupil...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 24
