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Show Let us give education to the individual. Let us give the large amount of energy which is always available in our education systems, to the individual. When we have done this, what does student activity mean to the individual.In the name of education, student activities can only exist for the sake of the indi-vidual. The particular activity should have meaning to the educational process. It should be of the mind, by the mind, and for the mind. Anything less is not in the name of education. It is for something else. This does not eliminate, in these activities, the element of entertainment. For entertainment at its best appeals to the intellect.Education must be the continual refining of the intellect. It is hourly, daily, and yearly. So the activities must be the expression of this continual intellectual refine' ment. These expressions of individual creativity should be the very basis of the group gathering. This is the manifestation of the individual, by the individual, and for the individual. All of this goes on within the group.For this reason let us remember what the group and its activity should stand for. The group is a collection of entities. Each group itself can never be an entity; only the persons can. These persons, when in the collection, are concerned with each other rather than with themselves. When alone, each person is concerned with his self'development. When he is again part of the group, he will be making a contri' bution to his colleagues by virture of the progress he has made as an unsurrounded person.BToDENrT AcTsVsTiSo now we have a valuable system which will fulfill and further the condition of society. Let the orator speak. For I can learn the power of speech from him. Let the musician perform his work. For without music I need not ears. Let the artist show his creation. For he is my interpreter. Let the philosopher be my index to life's com' plexities. For philosophy is as important as life itself. When all has been witnessed we begin to understand what a society must be. We have the fundamentals to human refinement. Giving of knowledge can be the only reason for the social perspective.The campus activity must now be the highest level of individual participation. We must have no more activity if it is only for play. There are not enough time and good minds to discuss the most important ideas of man. We must be aware that time is the only element by which the individual can achieve authority. There is no mending the time we abuse. We must be counting for passing moments and the future will be the record. The only element which gives life is time. Activities must be the using of time and the beginning of individual progress. |