# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S105
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 101

:«h school system for general education, it would be necessary

‘ uce in these schools a course definitely preparatory for
to _ ministerial work.
C. Obviously boys who after confirmation attend.a public high

school will be influenced by the secular goals of their schoolmates
(‘I'm going to be a lawyer” — “I’m going to be a doctor”), and. the
ministry or teaching profession in the Church will receive scant,
if any, consideration. None of the teachers and counselors in public

: schools will, as is done in our synodical high school depart-
ment, hold up as 2 goal to their boys the profession of a minister
or Christian day school teacher. Furthermore, boys at a public high
school will in many cases want to continue their studies with class-
mates at secular colleges and unversities. Thus many workers will
be lost to the Church.

D. Another highly important consideration involved, if we must
recruit our pre-ministerial students largely from public high school
graduates, is the matter of preparation. Our recruits will come
from all types of schools — good and bad, will have varied and
motley backgrounds, and will often have gaps— particularly in
language and history. Thus we shall be under the necessity of
doing in college much of what we now do in the high school.

In view of the foregoing considerations we have adopted the
following resolutions: -

Resolved, That we plead with Synod to weigh the price to be
paid if it should feel inclined to drop, in whole or in part, the high
school from the present high school-junior college system of
pre-theological education, and thus weaken the foundation of our
present educational structure; be it further :

Resolved, To urge Synod to strengthen the schools it already
has in administration and teaching force and material equipment,
and to stir both ministry and laity to more Synod-wide interest
in Synod’s every school; for instance, to take Synod-wide interest
whenever a faculty vacancy occurs, and to nominate from all
parts of Synod men of the highest caliber in character, consecra-
tion, and academic ability. Our schools are not isolated units, but
integral members of one system, serving the same Church and
the same Master.

Tse Facutry or Concorp1a COoLLEcE, Mitwavxes, Wis.
Pau F. Kornnexe, Secretary of the Faculty