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ToRDAY,. DECEMBER 22, 1973.
1173 . PAGE THIRTEEN
Letter To The Editor
Lucknow Sentinel,
Lucknow , Ontario.
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To you, sincere greetings and
thanks . . . with every good wish that the
joy and delight of the Yuletide will. be yours.
SOLOMON'S GREENHOUSES
We lift our voices in 'song to wish you and
yours the many joys of the Yuletide season.
May your holidays be truly merry.
PINECREST MANOR
NURSING HOME
A WORRIED SUPERVISOR OF HIST.
ORY
Circumstances have again re-
sulted in my writing to the Sentin-
el cOncerning,the history option
problem. Being an outsider as far
AS educational problems are con-
cerned, I occasionally get in
touch with a former fellow student
of mine , Mr. Colin Crozier of
Hamilton. Colin,is a general ed-
ucationalist who has served both
as an elementary and secondary
principal, and now as a subject
specialist sees the vital subject•of
history seriously undermined. In
a letter I received from him rec - •
ently Colin provided me with the
following statistics: "In one of ,
our secondary schools in Hamil-
ton , which I' feel is, representative
of the total enrolment in1970;
the percentage taking history was
74.45 . This has fallen to 41.36
percent in September 19'73" . This.,
is certainly a deplorable situation.
I believe the math reason fore
this situation is because our.Ont-
ado educational authorities are
not encouraging our senior students
to fulfil their obligation to -the
history program. I also believe it
is' quite conceivable .that this dep-
plotable situation will continue
as long as the public in general,
is content to be apathetic about
it.
What I would like to do now,, is
explain what is meant by our
Students having an obligation,as
far as history is concerned. The
fiist 'thing we should realize in.
considering this problem is that
the Western, World has brought the
different' peoples of the world into
much closer proxiinity than they
have ever been before: This
great achieVement has been done
by (1) Tremendous Voyages of
discovery, at various times, be-
ginning in the latter 15th century.
(2) Being able to make phenom-
enal progress in the fields 'of trans.-
portation and communications
down through the 19th and 20th
centuries.
We'should also aeknowledge
that this great achievement has '
put a continuing obligation on the
citizens of the western world to
set an' example, in helping to solve
the world understanding problem.
In referring to citizens we'have to
keep in mind that the students, of
today are, the citizens britomorrow.
This obligation then has been
built 'up over, a period of several
centuries. That may seem to be
a long time but actually, as far
as history goes ,'it isn't so long at
all.. For instance , we are told that
the human race has been on this-
earth for at leait 500,000 years.
For a very long period of time
man's progress was unbelievably
slow.' In fact man continued to
be in the Old. Stone•Age for thous-
ands of years after the famous
glacial movements ceased around
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