Three Requisites of Good Education
(Except* frost an address
the Proviaekl Normal Sefcooi tt Vancouver, at the epeaing Qf the Teacher's --.S�teMer T r m i.nlng School at New Denver).
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To rae an educated person has to have three things.
1. He has to have* the ability to make a living.
%, He must be able to' live�not merely exist.
3. He must, be able to live with other peopled
The first essential is* the ability to get a job and to hold it; making a living for yourself and those who are dependentfupon-you. ^he secr^: opd, to actually enjoy life day by -day, to get something-, out of life more than merely bread and but* ter. The third requirement is the ability to live with other people, on terms of tolerance and good- � will. May I'enlarge dij each of these? The ability to Jive, that is, to earn a living was a relatively -� simple thing 'n my younger days. There were few kinds of occupations to which a person eouid go if. he were brought up in a small vil-. lage in those days; probably-farming, a carpenter, or a blacksmith or working as a clerk in a~general store. Youngsters were trained in all of these occupations by their parents or by being apprenticed to an artisan or in a store. The school had no share in this training nor did it need to.
Today, industry is -intricate and diversified. .There are hundreds of occupations and for many of these special training must be provided. Parents have not the necessary knowledge so this form of educa- -lion - must be taken over by the schools probably along with some form of apprenticeship system in industry.
SPIRITUAL VALUES
"^iSe^ndly/^ve mulSliaveT the abi- ' lity actually to live, to get more out of courtesy and consideration of other people; the little. daily acts which make life happier and easier for both you and. for those with whom you come in contact. .
Standards, of/'� thorougnnessv to take your place in the commu-; nity doing with all your might, at ��� which your hands find, to dp; the desire "to tackle a difficult job and: carry it through; The standard of .. young people today is not as high . as it was perhaps.thirty orforty/ years ago in these matters.. I want to emphasize that, taken
� all in aty, the youth of. today and the schools of today . are better, .
:more worthwhile than, those of a generation ago! But they are not ' good enough. : Standardsv of>Ah6r-
� oughnesSj -. of effort, of -. integrity.. -are too-Iowy " : ' [�
"� There:- is / another ph ase^ To really/Hve^we�mu^t'have :spiritual^ /values/^ /an;. inner = Strength V on which � we may fall back on' in times: of stress. _..'- '- ; : I am not talking about church, T am. not sp^ifically talking-.about religion/ though ^th>of ^tnese^are -: helpful; I.remember the day when this, war was declaredf alfof :u? in/ ; school 'we re; 'sea^etfi ntheaudi tor-':: . itim listening to the radJo. VFhese words came over: "a state .6f war ; exists between this.; government and T Gerfnahy^. Somebody; slipped .oyer to the organ and struck up . "0 God Our Help In Age? Past/ We were all ''down" but;� our .
spirits were lifted by those word*.' * ~+ � . � �
1 am just wondering what \* going to happen to the-.'J>oy8. and girls in our schools, your schools a* .well as our schools, who just do not know the meaning 'of "O God Our Help In Ages Past" and whi : haven't anything to take its pla:e. � Well, that is the second thing. The ability to get more out'of our life.-TO LIVE WITH OTHERS
The third is the ability to live � with other people. Forty .years- ago my. neighbor was the person who lived in the farm next to mine qr in.th'e house next door. The man-who lived in,Quebec was as remote in_timj_ai^distance, and under-4 standing as the, man today who lives in China or Russia. * ir\vas'rforsuch-a difficult thing -to understand your neighbors in those days. You pretty well knew what he was like, what his ideas were, what he liked and what no did not 14ke, You learned to be tolerant of >his weaknesses and of his peculiarities and to -work along with him for the common good of -your community. -It was not so hard-to employ these two essentiar qualities .of tolerance and- cooperation,- to-have a certain-amount of give and take to alter- a point of ; view and perhaps to compromise ; with a neighbor whom you: coiifd see and know. Today your neigh-/ bor is a French Canadian in Quebec or lie is in Moscow or. he is in Italy. Perhaps in a year or two . he will be living in Germany or in Japan.
The German in .Germany is .no longer one in a distant and remote place with whom we have no (liir ect contact-. Things that happen to our neighbours concern, our own living whether we like it or whether we do not. Our future life is going to be -affected bv this. We niust have ay understanding of their problems . and .their difiieul-. "ties aiid of;their;riiVes^That;is?not;: to say that we have to concede to , them and give in to them, but it does mean that we. have to learn of their difficulties in a spirit of. sympathetic understanding ratiiei; than to leavn of them through the prejudices which in so many -cases we show only too clearly.; /�
We are governed very largely in our treatment of the people of . other countries by our own back--ground and by th e -"ideas t h at were' given to/'its sometime in schools and sometimes in bur homes.. It-seems to me.that the work* of education today is to develop, tolerance instead of prejudice. :- ..;"-. - * � � _* � _ .*.-�� . �; - ." '
The essence...of this business of democracy^ is .tlie' ability to Jive' with, other people.; "'7- :�- * '� v If we" start developing it pretty/ low 7down in the schools, iiqt by living; it, then.. 1 think there is some reasonable hope .that ..our pupils will, carry with them certain "Ideals which will: overcome :any fear.'If the boys and girls' leave.; school and go-out" into the world with ceYtahr: habits;;of tolerance �and cobperatioii - established,; then perhaps they will become men and -: wom'ejr with a real belief in dem-"c^racyr wKiclC "&fM :aH;;�-^thmi?; pi '� the � spiri.t .and : the. emotjoii .rather than ,6f the intellect^ . � ] If that l^appens^ perhaps we may : look'forward to a thousand ;y<?ars of p^itce. av.d the eternal brfdhc-r-hoott'of maiir . �.- . . �
By K. a
LETTER FROM TORONTO
"I witnessed m remarkable �cene . on D-day. The milkman wa* goinf about hi* business early in the morning, 1 met-i him as he was coming up to the- kitchen* He paused and said in a serious tone of voice, 'Welli it has started' � nothing, more. That i* how 1 got the news,*
HOME �� �"
He came in roaring with' laughter showing us his bandaged hand.
<(I cut my hand ... nine stitches ; ... maybe' two weeks holiday," he . said, and-laughed-asJthough at a tremendous joke.
"Crazy, eh?" said someone.
"Maybe too "much* last' night.; Couldn't see nothing this morning. Two weeks holiday very good he said; again, roaring with laughter.
TORONTO
'"That evening 1 was walking up Young Street and to my s.irprise the street:: was deserted. So- was Bloor Street. There Was no sign of hilarity or silliness; I pictured the people -staying home listening to the �nvasion news, ami praying for �those - .who were over there, fighting,"
HOME - - �
"I'll get by as long as I�-have* you,"
"Do you know what ?�' You go ofT key when you say 'have you'."
"That's to make it sound more melancholy."
.."Go on, you're just tone silly."
TORONTO
"The other day I saw one of tho nurses crying over the loss of lier younger brother who had been killed in Normandy, fighting. 1 felt very sorry for her. A kind of sadness and loneliness crept into my �heart and*made me cry-inside."
HOME I- ;,':'-: i '��
; "Tell me, does it really bother you if they, take away our votes?"
"No." � '� '�'/-.:��
JJot Humtte? da>� fruit�
ripening ... .young school b^ys and firis picking cherries .... re> minds one of the summer' holWsys �pent by coast evacuees in,pre-war days on the borty farms in %h* Lower Eraser Mainland..
Not to be outdone by their older biothers and sisters who. oftentimes in their' temmiscences of berry picking days say- 'ah yes, those were the days when before this war we etc i . , , the fast -growing younger Niseis in the Interior towns' are not letting gtass grow umjer their feet.
her hands ^lU trying to keep u# with appointments.
We ordered tea. Over to* v* talked tbchit this and Uiat a�d the conversation drifted to fcairdteas-ing.
"Don't reo how the girt? stand it," I remarked, "Stand whatf*
-Oh, sitting thene hours tm end under one of those dbme-shapod doodads on. a hot day. Don't too why they have to spend so much money on it either. Women euro are vain," 1 said.
WHOSPEJffiSrMDRE ?��r-
�Th^TdwHugirschool students - .That started something. Sparkt
have already gone to. Vemon -^0 began to fly.
pick the fruit crop there, while the . <4VVhat about men V* Miyeko
girls -and the elementary school "'asked, "How often do you get �
students are picking cherries m haircut?" How much do you pay
the neaVby and surrounding dis- for tt? How long does it'tskato
tricts. get one?" ' ^
Wartime-Transportation
'''Some sat, some stood,. some . slowly Strayed." ; The foregoing, �lines; might be modified as � follows_.' �"sonie :'.saVl:::'-':soniJe^'":'^t6bdv pushed or pulled" to give a fairly-accurate � picture. of the early morn- . Ing streetcar travellers. The^daily: ride" to work a-ia: the .Westdale -Huriingtoh Route is: generally a somewhat tedious^ :; monotonous routine. There is. the - usual, horde . qfv.w6rkers;<paihfuily-eagfcr:to oc^ -cupy every available cubic inch of space/; Pjep])le>walk^ojf^ elboVvs stick into �your back and � paiihch, and -strange <ulpurs""assai! -your: iiose^as5:the. deiise.'nvass ,of hiimanity. 6ii Ihe; move begins 10.. : ferment. " ' -:� . -'�� . �:'
V -Oil the: "other . hand there arje. amusing sidelights such as the- last .minute crushers who specialize. in.: catching street cars 011'the.fly and > charge pUJTing and gasping'.into, the yestibiile/ the dignitied busi-. ;h>^^rnVwtrh^jtelt-fale;^g^{rtains -at; the1 corners of his mouth, the adolescent female . sVar-workers . who titter self-consciously .in the midst of a decidedly male majority- � - � /
In . the - matter of streetcar etiquette, especially as applie�l to seating priorities, the niceties- of
. F>mily Post's declarations s<t;em to be-.suspended. Jt'a rdtely -a ca?fr. of every man . for himself^ : Mo^re than once' I. have fou^d -.my^e':* 'iar^gui^hing again?t the last p;>t.
.tiv.. :he .rr?ir..door cKi'^hrn? 'jsm! ' -reading the morning paper while
K-jdy efiailibriunu
TImp oiTwr mf.rnrng T receive! i Tatiwr. pieaiatrt surp^lse^ hn< the ueasl . wt�tiow�jammed car. IxSt pest, ll^jpipt. S�d*r?fy . attent;on was diverted Tma> the an-t^f of^&saweod yj a tifcid tug the rw Tuniag I beMd a ten ei4 isnjis% il^ylstiim pztxlc cat Mfm ppool tp � s boy-*k m�e. "9ry wmjm fite
a wmtiV It toak. me * _ Ifce a�
Osfft of tUi
j*<VI MfW m*** I hv*
"About' once in three weeks, fifty cents a haircut and about half �n hour."
"There you are. We get a rperm' once a year but you boys have to get a haircut once in three weeks and .which takes, a half an hour each time. Figure it out, the boys spend twice "as' much time and money in a year on their hair than -girls do."
That had ine slumped but not -Sam. --
'Yeah but there's a: difference though. We. do things, in moderation. :\Ve get a haircut for fifty cents, sit for a half an hour once every three weeks. But 'the girls spend-va lump sum: of four or five dollars and a whole afternoon getting their hair set. Then look at the time they have to spend on it every night. Putting curlers in their, hair and all that. You can't fool me, I've seen .my sisters doing it and they sure take time. At � least we don't take that long."
"Oh so you thiilk girls take a �lot^ o^; tinie^fixiiig"the^^ ; you?. Well, my hiibby takes longer than 1 do to fix my hair.- He puts, some Vitalis oh, plicks his haify parts it, reparts it and still isn't satisfied. Oh, you don't know the half of it,". said Kimi. �^.�:�;::^nnVJ^JMd I were taking a verbal beatiirff/ We both' knew it.: How can you, expect, to win rwhen you're � arguing Against: wbincii.; But-then it was bur^Nfaulti we stuck .our ; . necks; out. _-.\^:, .:' :�.. . CHANGE OF SOBJKCT ' "I read somewhere once that the , reason more men arc bald than ; wpnicn - is because the women'/wear. � their hair longer: ; Ik.'.there, any; truth iii tliat?" I asked trying to /change' the subject: '�' '
"Could lie, although I think it's . becaiire.the men wear^ hat^ all the -
Starting work at all hours of the morning, (anytime from A a.m. on) and Quitting at about lutu-iv time, ami beginning again, in the ; cool Evenings until 'dusk,, the youngsters are earning a substan- .-, tial sum during their school holidays.
A typical scene in a cherry orchard i s tha t of : agile: hoys Clambering to dangerously thin branches � and nonchalantly picking away while the . more- timid girls stay close lo the lower boughs, i Laughter and gay banter fill the . air and occasionally from tire tree lops a curse as- a foot slips or a scream from a insect-hating girl �"look an ant!"
Or. the relieved "ohs and ahsl" as a ladder leaning against a branch with its human burden stops in its downward fall; the occasional outburst of profanity as pnilfuls of cherries come hurtling down . . . .
Glimi)scss of both strange and
"'fannU.al^
walking the streets of this centre
is quite common those days. They
(the girls) airive here with: their
hair in shoulder lengths and when
they leave, their hair is. all piled
up in tight little curls after spend-. jng a couple of hours at a: hnii> �dresser's. -Phi-; in itseir^lraws more
visitors from all the other centres'
than any other / btislness or' plea-.
sure;commitments. " � �;� � �[ -: ' / Last- night 1 met- Miyeko - who: - was here for tliat very pufpose�
�of getting her hair "<loii.eup".
Miyeko is a petite/ miss from
Lemon Creek who teaches kiiitlei - .
gurten during the afternoons and
attends night school.:.:during the
evenings. /She ;is ;jiwv/l^ : suouner. Jvolidays and is here/ for/
lier annual 'peraiiancnl Svavc". / /-�------. . . . -�.-------. ^-------________. �
Since we had nothing :bctler to" � >nne, anf/don't gel the proper do. Sam r.nd. I were- chewing -the .nourishment, for their hair." r rag in the coiTce shop. whe.ii "\Vell, what about the women? .-'. ^jMiyckb and Kimi came in. 'Kimi is. : They . wear . hats..too don't.; they? / the hairdresser who at present has �; Or />s it liecause; they wear- such
w a s - a h a p p r ec ia t j ye.; w*a y .'. a hd de-posjted/niybu.lk between the boy's grandniother and a grizzled, veteran commuter. '?S'av,". I re.nect'ed to � myself, "this: J;cbm|hg generation shows, promise."- ^; - ; / - "
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crazy /creations. %ith flowjers on it /: that it stihvulates; (he^hair into getting the ^proiwr/^h^yrishment?^;/ I gave as a. part ing crack before I dodged out of. the shop. �.
Antl if /looks'/could kill I'd be /flat on rny back -with my toes . curled up.j-.. . . V \- :. :.::^ .
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