EDUCATION AND HUMAN PROGRESS
The college, like the human belng, is constantly in motion. By its very nature, a college is either growing or decaying. This is t.J:ue only because a college is nothing more than a group of people seriously bent on the I.ask of cducatlng and being educated. The process of education, the process of seeking out answers to the mystery of 1ife iLsclf, is an undeniable movement; hopefully a Ionvard movemenL. At North Idaho Junior College, the student is caught up in Lhe educational movement. Ile has elected to join the group of his fellows in Lhc search for knowledge, and like il or no, he gives to some degree his individuality and his humanity Lo the group as a whole. The student at North Idaho Junior College soon finds that his horizons of knowledge a1路e involuntarily broadened. In the college community, the student discove1路s lhal those who teach do not claim Lo impart quantitative knowledge so much as open doors lo ways of discovering knowledge. The actual burden of discovery is placed upon the 1:1houldcrs of the student himseU, and the individual effort becomes the key to the discovery of each student's personal identity. There is a defm1tc progress inherent in the definition of the college environment. The student has Lo be concerned not only with scholarship and empirical fact; he is also placed in an atmosphere which causes him to become aware of himseU and his emotions. For the first Lime in his life, tJrn student is forced into himself lo discover himsell by intensive intrnspect1on. The attitudes and emotions that he flnds in his own soul are solidified into lhe mature, U1inking individual. This process of discovery is indeed a progressive process; a process that goes on in the mind or every student, and lhereforc, in the college itseJJ. We dedicate the 1967 Driftwood to this process of growth. Within these pages, we give special consideration to lhe expansion of the student emotionally, spiritually, and scholastically. We have grown with our generatton; we have !ell the expansion of our awareness; we now dedicate our annual to the sLudenl and to his continuing prob'l'ess as a human being. ---Jeff Cox
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