July 1956 School Magazine

T!Je "/vt~.,~ZhH ~f ·[~e ~,.,sl~~.,H b"·l/ [r·.,.»-t»-t~,. rBc}J~~t EDITORIAL. WE of the Twentieth Century pride ourselves on our enlightened state of mind and spirit, our superior education and knowledge and our amazing and sometimes bewilderingly complicated inventions. We pat ourselves on the back and declare w 'th smug self-satisfaction that this is the Golden Age of Science ir' which human beings, obeying an inborn instinct of laziness, have decided to let machines do their work for them. All these tireless machines designed · to make life one glorious, luxurious and effortless dream for us, have not succeded in lowering our blood pressure. Let us rise out of the mud of complacency and egoism in wh ich we have been wallowing and look about us to-day. Are we any happier than our rude and healthy forefathers ? Despite the ir lack of edu- cation and their sad dearth of modern facilities, they were at least, more contented. The world is a verit- aH3 cauldron of restlessness and trouble, seething with the suppressed emotions of discontented and rebellious peoples, who are just learning to give voice to them and to try their young wings in demo- cratic flight. Are we to help in clipping these flut- tering wings or shall we do our utmost to assist them in their efforts to build up prosperous countries for themselves? We must learn to view both sides of the question with impartiality and, in order to do so, we must be truly educated and not merely instructed with a th;n veneer of learning, quickly forgotten in the levell ing processes of Time. Therefore, let us make full use of our leisure and grasp every opportunity for increasing ·our know- ledge and widening the horizon of our interests. We are at the impressionable age during which we can absorb more than at any other stage in our lives. Let us take advantage of it, and leave ourselves open to the great stores of wisdom contained in this world, so that we shall grow wiser and not more foolish with increasing age.

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