The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-05-22

| ~ HuSlcliH must KNOW so H1uCn VI
musical correctness.
A musician must know so much of
music that he is correct without think
ing about correctness. So long as a
singer or instrumentallst has to be
careful to be correct he will never be
more than correct.
| Success in music depends entirely
upon having had 50 much musical
education that one can give all thought
and attention to the spirit Of the rem
dition, to the Interpretation OF the
finer feeling Of the composer.
That is the difference between the
high school graduate and the man
who has merely learned to do his work
by doing his work. The graduate learns
to do it more quickly and is always
learning something more than the
doing Of the work he is learning. He
secs in it more than he would other
wise and he sees beyond it farther
than he would otherwise. He inter
prets his work as the singer inter
prets the song. That Is what ultima
tely makes him a foreman or q super.
intendent.
The High School Helps One to Read
Better
A high school graduate reads bet
ter. There are daily papers in every
large city that few will read who are
not high school graduates. There are
features of all large daily papers that
no one else is likely to read.
fs- fcIin n
daily papers and no one realizes this
as much as does the publisher Of the
not.best papers.
The publisher, if he talks cohfiden-
TALLY, will say: we specialize on
local news because so many readers
of daily papers do not know enough to
be interested in world affairs, or even
in national affairs"
They will say: I'VE use short gen.
tences because so many readers Cd
the daily papers do not want to think
long enough at one time to read a
long sentence"
They will say: 1--WE use large head
lines or red head lines because so many
: of our readers will not read anything
unless we shout at them in loud type.
If all people lin the United States
were high school graduates there
would be no choppy sentences nor any
enormous head lines.
Not in the Junior high school even
does a pupil get the swing Of intel
ligent reading as he does in the SEN
ior high school, and this Ia intensified
in geometrical ratio in those years, sc
that at graduation he is vastly more
masterful in his reading than at any
other time in his public school life.
This results from the cumulative Wis
ions that he gets by the heightened eff;
feet of his varied studies.
Ones rank as reader Is determined
largely by the range Of his reading. ant
wholly by the range and resduum O
his reading, and both Of these ar
l greatly heightened by the extension Q
his scholarship. In the years Of tn
high school both the range an'
the residuum increase in geometrica
y ratio.
Helps One to Talk Better
= A graduate of q senior high schoo
| talks much better because Of his en-
larged vocabulary, his broader horizon
his greater ease in expression.
: He Is a better conversationalist be
. cause he has a much wider range o
topics. He can adapt himself to an,
general topic whereas one with linn
tied knowledge Of subjects can onl
converse freely when his companion
can adapt himself to his intelligence.
= Conversation has come to be high
" ly important part Of anyones socia
Industrial, or commercial equipment
and n high school education pays
large dividend in ones effectiveness
, through conversational skill and AR
One can think better who has had
full course in high school.
One is never quite the same so lon
as there is class above him as h
= Is when all the classes are below him
Not until then is one likely to thin
!, as leader.
" Until one is n senior he will be NOR
or less willing follower. or more o
less rebelllous, but he will not thin
OF himself as leader Of the schoc
> as a whole but every senior ha
somewhat the responsibility OF think
ing In terms of leadership.
The high school, and by this W
always have in mind all secondar
!, schools private as well as public, ha
II never included ten per cent. OF III
" population in it's graduates, but thee
!, nave furnished eighty per cent, c
the leadership in American thought.
Anyone who educational opportun
ties cease before he has graduate
from a high school jeopardizes his or
portunities for leadership In though
industrially and commercially. clvica
ly and socially. yes religiously.
High School Graduates earn TO Lear
One of the most important value
=, Of high school graduation Is the fac
that the high school graduate In
!, learned to learn.
We asked an officer In the Trainin
School for naval aviators why they r,
quired high school graduation or NOR,
and he replied: Because one Is nC
likely TO know how to learn withot
at least that much schooling"
II is not wholly the fault OF the ell
mcntary school that an eighth-grad
graduate has not. ordinarily. learned |
learn. There is lack OF maturi,
g and lack OF range OF information.
A student OF naval aviation mul
learn in six weeks the vital feature
and functions OF the student OF III
Naval Academy. This cannot be learr
ed by one who does not know man
things not studied in an elementar
II. school.
One cannot use u surveyors outf
without knowing several things tn;
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