Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1919-08-28
TO THE PATRONS AND
STUDENTS OF ESTAN-
CIA HIGH SCHOOL

L wish to call your atten-
tion to the fact that school
opens Monday, September 9Th,
and not to overlook the i'm
portance of beginning with
the first day and continuing
till the last.
| shall be in the school
building on Friday and Satur-
day, September 5th and 9Th,
for the purpose of enrolling
the high school students and
offering assistance in the Sc
lection of courses for the COM
ing term, as we'll as getting
acquainted and finding the
problems of the individual
student.
You students who have just
graduated from the grades
may be undecided as to wheth-
er you should go on or not,
whether it is worth while to
spend four more years in ed
ucation. Some of you have
already strated and spent a
year or so, are wondering also
whether you should continue.
You may have an offer of
what seems to be good money
to go to work and let school
alone. In fact you may be
Saying that you can make
more in a financial way with
what education you already
have than many college and
university men, and that may
he true in some cases for the
present, but it may not always
be thus, for we are now liv-
ing under the stimulus of eX-
Itraordinary and unnatural
trade conditions. And you,
too, parents, may be debating
the advisability of sending or
encouraging your son or
daughter to continue his or
her education.
In view of the above posi-
bilities let me make a few re-
marks in behalf of a high
school education. In the be-
ginning Of the history of our
high school or secondary ed
ucation it came as a prepara-
tion mainly for college or uni
versity. But as we have pro-
gressed from year to year it
has been found necessary to
enlarge the high school course
and equipment so as to meet
the needs of a great number
of our boys and girls who
cannot go further in educa-
ton, but who need more than
an eighth grade knowledge in
order to cope with the prob
lens of a fast advancing and
swift progressing world. A
high school training means no
more in this day, probably not
so much, as an eighth grade
meant thirty or forty years
ago. One must almost have a
high school education today in
order to have anything at all
| in the way of a scholastic
preparation.
So courses have been added
from year to year, the curricu-
lum improved and new de-
partments supplemented until
at the present time the high
school stands not as a prepar-
alton alone for. higher train
ing, but as an institution with
a preparation complete within
itself. 1t has so enlarged that
it stands now as a school
adapted to the practical needs
of our young people.
But one should not look at
the practical altogether. In
secondary education we do not
lose sight of the fact that we
are training human beings, a
being with heart and soul as
we'll as an intellect. And so
we strive to broaden the mind,
to teach social obligation and
Regeneration and never lose
sight of the fact that we are
teaching to raise the standards
of citizenship as we'll as turn
out specialists into the indus
trial world.
Therefore it shall not only
be the aim of the Estancia
High School during the coming
year to offer courses and Sc
organize itself as to meet the
, needs and problems of the
community in which it is To-
, Gated, but also to hold a high.
er ideal of civil responsibility
continually before the stu
dents. cannot give definite
, information at present, but al
, those who have questions tc
ask or desire further informa
ton are asked to feel perfectly
free to call on me at the schoo