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The Clarion EDITORIAL PAGE Quality Education “Quality Education” . . . What is it? Do we have it? Can we Have it? The answer to the ques tions can be found but may vary according to the individual. P’irst, let us explore the possible definitions of Quality Education. We think of education as a per son’s studying, writing, searching, evaluating, observ ing, and storing the products of effort in his mind prior to going forth into society to work in a field he has chosen. Our educational program is built around these thoughts. However, our educational program cannot be classified according to its quality because its quality is not revealed until the individual uses his funda mental education. The program begins to build, to mold, to shape a youth through elementary school, high school, and college. When the best teachers, books, and methods are employed to instill the marks recognized as education, the individual is said to have received the best education available; how ever, he has been prepared to enter society with only the fundamental knowledges of an educated society, and has received what is classified as a degree, “of higher learning.” But in order to receive such a degree it seems that it should be mandatory for the individual to search, listen, to observe, to evaluate, all that he has studied, and also to investigate fur ther the prinsiples required to make a man capable of being classified as wise, rational, and filled with a certain amount of knowledge. He should be led to sense a difference between more education and Qual ity Education. To go further, the individual needs educational institution with people who try to teach their stud ents how they are to do their jobs or work and who radiate an attitude of understanding and educating themselves. Too often our own educators fall short of having a “true education” of their own. To summarize what we want Quality Educat- tion to mean is impossible, for we are still searching for Quality Education. We reap what we sow; therefore, man needs to sow everything worthwhile in life and plant, and nourish and reproduce his ideals until they satisfy the hidden hopes of men, their unvoiced thoughts, their God-given rights, and their needs for understanding. Then we reap what is Ouality Education, not the mere salary of a doctor ( ’^wyer, an engineer or building a personal em- r ■■a private haven of wealth, not a feeling of : . :ed, jealousy, or hate. In short, Quality Education is learning how to use all the humane resources we possess in the ef fort to obtain knowledge. In turn, wisdom is the result of our knowledge, or rather, the result of the nse of our humane resources. Quality Education . . . only a few men have such a thing. Although all can have it, few ever will. STUD The Clarion EDITOR - IN - CHIEF Steve Huggins NEWS EDITOR Wayne Morton FEATURE EDITOR Jackie Griffith, Peggy Mizzell SPORTS EDITOR Mike Bumgardner REPORTERS Louise Bruster, Orion Holen, Jean Wilkinson, Susan Zehrung ADVERTISING Jo Ann Pace, Jean Wilkinson PHOTOGRAPHY Don Kirkendall SPONSOR Mrs. Ena Kate Sigmon Just wlio are we in tMs great big rut? About 550 students who have the courage to say “we want freedoms — longer hours, more liberal drinking rules, no chapel . . . FREEDOM!” Five hundred and fifty stud ents, minus a very small mi nority, who have confused the term freedom with the term free-fornall. We want freedom! Okay, the way to get it is to make plac ards and form a march — not entirely to support or draiw at tention to our cause, but to terrorize children, and insult the administration as well as our own intelligence. Five hundred and fifty stud ents who stand as a body out side of Jones Hall and cheer for more liberal rules which will make us look — note I say look — more mature. Unfor tunately, words written on a pa per that has been approved by the College Council cannot be stamped or Xeroxed into our souls. No, we have to work for maturity, and suffer for ma turity. When Brevard’s mighty five fifty go out for something they want, they expect to get it for nothing. That’s right, some thing for nothing. Our parents pay approximately $2,000 for our two-year stay here — that’s something, but as evidenced by our behavior, we aren’t getting anything for it. Lord knows, the teachers have tried- That can be seen by the amount of work we’re given. But are we really try ing? I work in the library six hours a week; every hour the number of students in the library are counted. The most I have ever counted is 24,— this evening after Chapel, the count was 77 — 77 out of 550, that’s nothing! Yet we want longer library hours; who’s go ing to use them? The church tries to give us something, but we take abso lutely nothing. When I was in high school, we had required assemblies ev ery week. The programs were not always enjoyaible nor agree able, but we had the courtesy, even more, the self-respect to listen. By listening we learned —took something. At Brevard College we have required chapel once a week. We are being given something, but we don’t have enouigb court esy or self - respect to take it. You don’t think so? WeU, ex plain, rationally, your (you the 550!) conduct during Religious Emphasis Week and chapel! Most students didn’t give Rev. Mr. Finlator a chance. I feel sorry for you- You’ve missed one of the greatest experiences and challenges of your whole life. Rev. Mr. Finaltor’s ser mons so infuriated, so insulted me, made me so discontent, that I started to think. I haven’t done that for years! Obviously neither has the Fabulous Five Fifty. Mr. Finlator didn’t say, “lit tle promising college students, search your precious souls while you are here at Brevard, ?nd when you come off this mountain maybe the world con ditions will have reached a point where you can be help ful.” Oh no. He looked those of us who were brave enough to attend his sermon and told it to us “like it is.” We’re nothing but a bunch of cowards, hiding in these hills, using our talents in misguided channels, afraid of the world. Afraid of the misery around us. Agraid of all the dangers and evils we are being instrumental in creating. Brothers and sis- Patience Not A Virtue (ACP) — While patience may be regarded as virtuous by the older generation, it is not a virtue coveted by the growing student generation, says the Ball State News of Ball State Uni versity in Muncie, Ind. The newspaper’s editorial continued: History, in many cases, re veals the futility of patience. “Be patient,” the elder states men of four generations said to the enslaved Negro. “You will have your day.” So the Negro was patient. And “his day” was put off until tomor row. The main hope for the stud ent generation lies in its re jection of the belief that pa tience will be rewarded by “the gift of a better day.” “Listen to all that protest,” says the older generation which fights wars, domestic and for eign, from their desks. “There’s no respect for age. These stud ents are irresponsible. They make a mockery of freedom.” Freedom does demand re sponsibility. But responsibili ty also requires freedom and a voice in the course of events. If an individual’s life is put in jeopardy for a cause, then he has a right to question re sponsibility the reasoning that says his dying is necessary. The same holds true in a uni versity. If an individual is get ting a second - rate education, he has the right to demand something better. If he is treat ed like a child in the determina tion of important policies that affect his campus life and as a “young adult” in the less im portant areas, he should be able to actively seek a cure to this administrative sohizophre- nia. If he’s a second-class citizen in the campus commuity be cause of age, race, or the length of his hair, he should question the middel - aged, closely-crop ped, white administration which says this role is best for him. If the individual chooses to wait for academic reform to de- Fcend from Mount Olympus, he must be patient. Things come to those who wait, but only those things which aren’t very important. ters, there’s a world down there now — and unless we get off our high horses and look at things as they are, and do some thing NOW, there may not be a world down or up here! As for chapel, well that’s the punpose of this outcry. I so sickened by the children in Durham auditorium this eve ning, that I was ashamed to be counted as one of them. We had one of the best chapel ser vices of the semester, but the five hundred and fifty bodies present were not willing to re ceive anything. They didn’t want to get anything out of the service, so they made a point of not allowing anyone to get their money’s worth. Why are we so afraid of reality? We want our reality? We want our reality at Bre vard College to be different, ibut we’re afraid to face it as it is; if we can’t face it now, what about later? We look at ourselves and see adult bodies, but when the lights go out (as in chapel) we show we don’t have adult minds. I have not heard such rude, uncalled for, obscene re marks and actions since gram mar school. I’m glad Mr. Cort wasn’t Director of Admissions when we applied to Brevard. If he had been, very few of us could or would have been ac cepted for our maturity, hones ty and spirituality. We cry for freedom — yet we conform with our peers. We want freedom — but we don’t even know what we’re do ing or where we’re heading. We say we want freedom—but if somebody tells us we’re “cool” because we stamp and cheer and boo, and hiss in chap el, We say “right baby, I’m with you!” We cry freedom!” yet we aren’t even involved with life. We want freedom — but we can’t even help others; we just care about the all-important, self - suifficient “I.” iSo you see, whether we be lieve it or not, we’re lost — lost amid all the opportunities presented to us. Isn’t it about time we found the courage and initiative to find out just who we are in this great big rut, and then live by the standards we set for ourselves. Jane Kimball "Observe your student government in action. Attend the weekly meetings of the SGA.” anon
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