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Th e Wardlaw School is founded upon the principle that
a boy’s education consists of something- more than the
memorizing of formulae and the knowledge that text-books
contain.
Education is a living, breathing, vital condition, ac­
quired by means of various agencies which develop the
intellectual, esthetic, physical, and social sides of a boy’s
life.
Through reading and study is the intellect stimulated to
profit by the experiences of the past, to comprehend the problems of the present, to value literature, to understand
science, and to prize well the opportunities which lie in the
path of the educated man.
Through acquaintance with the plastic and pigment arts.
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and the study of music comes an awakening of the esthetic sense and an appreciation of the beautiful, which ripens with age into the culture of the scholar.
Ey physical education and systematized athletics the body is brought to that higher development in which muscular
co-ordination and sound health become the faithful allies
of an alert mind.
By self-government and the honor-system, the rub­
bing of shoulders with his fellows in daily life, the intimate relationship of the athletic team , and the constant striving for the same goal through the medium of the same high
ideals, a boy becomes to his school what later in life he be­ comes to his country,—a high-spirited, \])atriotic, reliable
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C. D. W ardlaw. 1917