Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1959-06-01 / 6. szám
FRATERNITY 7 C. ARTO: EDUCATION IS NOT A DESTINATION — IT IS A JOURNEY AND WE MUST BE ALWAYS ENROUTE JUNE is probably the most “youthful” month of the year. June is the traditional month of commencements and marriages, both opening up new vistas of adventure. June also brings to mind vacations ahead: times for recreation, re-creation and regeneration. June’s sunshine and warm rains turn our attention to the blossoming of nature: vegetable plots and flower gardens entice us; auto trips beckon us; and even repairing and renovating have a special pleasing appeal. Adventure seeking youths must heed the challenge of June and grown-ups should wisely prepare to accept its proffered opportunities. COMMENCEMENT. Much will be written about commencements from the high schools and colleges of our fifty states. Undoubtedly one of the most attractive will be the commencement at West Point. Many words will be written about the top man of the class and even about the anchor-man. I would like to call the attention of all graduates not to the parade grounds, not to the honorary doctorates, nor to the valedictories or diplomas, but to the principles of leadership as laid down at West Point. These, I believe, apply not only to the gentlemen and officers gathered on the banks of the Hudson, but may be applicable to all. I think you may find these principles worth accepting. I am sure — once accepted — they will enhance your spiritual and material success: 1. Take responsibility for your actions, regardless of their outcome. 2. Set an example. 3. Know yourself and seek self-improvement. 4. Seek responsibility and develop a sense of responsibility among subordinates. 5. Make sure the task is understood, supervised and accomplished. 6. Know your men and look out for their welfare. 7. Keep your men informed. 8. Train your men as a team. 9. Employ your command in accordance with its capabilities. 10. Know your job. EDUCATION. Let’s see what some of the great people of literature have said about learning. Goethe: “The highest happiness of a man as a thinking being is to have probed what is knowable and quietly revere what is unknowable.” — Morris Bishop: “The average person asks of education only that it increase his earning power that he may enjoy in greater quantity or quality the material satisfaction of the uneducated.” — André Malraux: “Culture is the sum of all forms of arts, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.” — Luella B. Cook: “Education today has before it many new jobs, but perhaps the greatest of these is the job of educating the human spirit to live happily in the new world created by science. For
