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120 <br /> pupils on a tuition basis and one day in the future would <br /> accept the Mashpee Junior High School pupils on a tuition <br /> basis when Falmouth constructed additional classrooms. <br /> Yours very truly, <br /> CLAYTON E. CAMPBELL, <br /> i <br /> Superintendent <br /> Education <br /> A thoughtful person who scans in broad perspective and <br /> with deep discernment the total educational program -in this <br /> country cannot escape seeing the relationship of the school <br /> to the life of people in cities, towns,and open country places. } <br /> What the school is and what it has done since the beginning <br /> of public education in this country have been inextricably a <br /> related to the wants and needs of people — to their hopes <br /> and expectations, to the ideals that give direction to their v <br /> thoughts and actions, and to the circumstances in which <br /> they live. The values which people cherish; the priorities as- } <br /> signed to these values; the theories that hold promise for <br /> giving a sense of order, unity, and efficiency to what people <br /> do; and the cultural climate that prevails at any time in <br /> ram.roucational <br /> large measure shape the educational program. <br /> By their very nature the schools are oriented toward the <br /> future. For the most part they serve young people — young f <br /> people who look forward to rich, productive, satisfying lives. <br /> This is America's promise to its youth. These young people, <br /> whether they live in cities, small towns, or country villages <br /> or in the wide stretches of the open country, look forward f' <br /> to the time when they have jobs, homes, families, places in KR <br /> -community life that give them opportunity to serve their g <br /> fellowmen in some useful way, and recognition as individuals ; <br /> with true worth and dignity — a time when they will be ma- <br /> ture citizens in a country of which they can be justly proud. ' <br /> The public schools are committed to serve all young peo- <br /> ple — the gifted, the average, and the less academically <br /> talented. All are important; each has an inalienable right to <br /> do the best he is capable of doing; and to the extent that <br /> anyone fails to develop his full potential and to use it for <br /> worthy purposes the country is weaker and democracy has <br /> fallen short of achieving its high purpose. To design and <br /> support an educational program that will serve them all — <br /> not in the same way, but 1n ways adapted to their different <br />