Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-02-27
WHY GO TO HIGH SCHOOL,

II IL not easy to think II any good
reasons why one does not want 10 10
10 the high school.
We can think on only two reasons
that look reasonable. and one IN thai
you can learn what you greatly desire
10 learn better viihral g"lnF ta
hlgh school ~ 10 private academy.
There are eases IN which that IL APP
parcntly true and II Il Is honestly true
IN your case We viii not argue II with
you but. personally. We have not known
such a ease.
IL you are honest In that reason. you
may no, be- wise though honest That
~ easily true " you can only ~ 10 ap
old.time academic high srhool. academy
OF collcg, preparatory school, bat to
day there are few YOUNG people who
cannot have the privilege u attending
high school of adequately varied
courses.
Another IL that the family needs the
money you can earn. n iH not easy 10
meet this objection. but the cases We
have known simply make this an ~.
cuse. Often the family gets little Il
any Of H. We have known so many
Instances where the children spend IL
on themselves "a the family spends Il
foolishly that We are always suspicious.
Tut when u IL an honest reason /, 10
hard 10 meet the objection.
You Learn Mnny Things.
In the high school you will study II
least four subjects ~ time aud learn
practically as much ~ each ~ Xou
would II you were studying only one.
The four studies In n, high school
are much like rotation n crops
Soil needs rest after Il has pro.
duced one crcp too Ions. so the mind
Of youth should not be active long on
enc line 81 study.
The study " four subjects broadens
the range ~ acquaintance without
lessening the Interest In any one.
II Joseph knows John ana Jane. Lew.
II and Lucia. Frank ana Fannie. ne
knows the intimat,s ~ each ~ them
II each has ten iniimatcs. Joseph
knows sixty interesting people and he
would know more II the friends u any
enc 81 them because he knows the
friends % al ~ them.
iou Get . Record.
Most Important " the fact that what.
ever one learns In an institution IL
a matter ~ record. II II somstblps
that II markabie. II l. Ike the pedi.
erce Of pure bred animal. There /.
q guarantee that you have successfully
mastered n course.
We have seen two helfers standing
eide by side In the harm. They leaked
very much alike. They were DroAy
and Roxy. Droxy gave more milk than
ROXY and II was a. good in auality.
but Dtoxy could b. bought Tor Ga
while Roxy could not BE- bough; for
ten times that
Why,
broxy had no pedigree record. Roxy
with her guaranteed pure blood was
sure 10 produce calves with much the
same qualities she had. but there was
no knowing what weak strains m
Droxyls blood might produce a weak.
ling now and then.
Jersey must have a pedigree clear
on both sides hack 20 the Isle Of Jer.
sey In the English Channel because for
more than 300 years nothing but a Jer.
sey has been cr that island.
high school ,as standing tina,
gives TO It's ~ 40 tcs pedigree. The
Latin school. nof.0u. has never grad.
uated boy who was no, a pure breed
In the classics.
The Washington Irving High School
IN New York has begun TO establish It's
brecd Of learning as dis.ince from the
Boston Latin School az II Il m the nor
sonification 81 civic efficiency.
High School Years Are Vital.
high school course il adau,ed 10
the best attainment 81 young people
from thirteen % eighteen. No normal
child can wisely and reasonably learn
before twelve what he can best learn
from thirteen 20 eighteen. and while
many things In the course can be- learn.
ed later. Il ls much better. II the course
II well chosen. 20 learn Il In ,hess
years
There are only fcw weeks AZ the
most when any seed can be- hes, plsu,.
Cd IN any field. In Iowa every farmer
knows that " h. plants corn before
given day In May he takes risk from
frost AZ he does from druugh n he
plants u after a given day In June.
AZ society and the industrial world
are. II Young man or woman does
not enter the high school before he IL
sixteen II Is reasonably sure that he
WIZ never study the high school sub