The Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-10-08, Page 6ODERVItSIG1s,TAleSTAR, TUUR'SDAY, OCTOBER .8i, 1910.
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MANY DIGNITARIES WERE PRESENT
VALEDICTORIAN PETER KALBFLEISCH
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Vaiedictory Address 19I0
13Y PETER KALBFLEISC'
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This .evening marks for those of us in the graduating class both a
beginning and an end. The commencementinto a life tilled with new
fears, new 'responsibilities,and new aspirations; an end to the
sheltered existence of old. It is a time for lookirng both to the future
and to the past;.a time to evaluate both where we are going and from
where we have come.
- The future shall he our inheritance, and with it the problems of •
tie., future: many of the same problems inherited in turn by our
parents and grandparents. These shall. be our test, our challenge. It
rests, upon our shoulders to establish the aquarian society of which
men have so oft dreamed.
Shall we have the wisdom and tolerance to banish the age-old
prejudices and to create, in their void; a lashing fellowship among all
men? Shallwe heed the warnings of Fromm and other such noted
philosophers by humanizing technology before Man himself becomes ,
just another cog ' in the endless cycle of productivity and
consumption; or shall we through our greed and passivity be herded
1 as dumb sheep toward some dismal brave new world of the future?
Can we save ourselves and our environment from a gasping death
beneath mountains of garbage and human filth? The answer to these
and many more vital 'questions lies within us, in what we,, have
experienced, and moreover, in what we have learned. The solutions
to these problems shall provide the true evaluation of our education.
They. shall measure the worth of our last four or five years more -
accuratety and more dramatically. than the fairest exam or most
implicit essay.
' We must be instilled with a sense of human tolerance . coupled
with self-discipline; for even the most learned of men is of no use. to
society if he- himself is. not disciplined. This I see as the main
function of education. .It must be organized, contrary to .the
advocates of free curriculum, in such a way as,to require the student
to discipline both mind and body in order to fulfill the demands of ,
his course. Any school" which , makes no attempts ' to mentally
discipline its charges can by .,no means callitself an educational_
institute. .
We were fortunate in having the opportunity to attend a collegiate
-still-based--on- this so -called -old-fashioned concept of diseipline,--a-
school, I' believe, in which both principal and teachers did their
utmost to piovide a groundwork for future education and
experience. The onus, therefore, lies on us, on how well we took
advantage of our opportunity,_to learn. I ,would like to thank, on
behalf of my colleagues and myself, the taxpayers, the board
members,. Mr. Stringer, our many fine teachers, and lastly our
parents for giving us, in some instances,, a chance they never had. I
hope, `when that final evaluation does come, that we 'may honour
their faith, their patience, and their dollars with success.
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THE AUDITORIUM WAS PACKED FOR THE EVENING
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SCHOOL PRINCIPAL JOHN STRINGER GAVE THE WELCOMING ADDRESS
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THE PROCESSIONAL OF GRADUATES
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