The Brussels Post, 1977-05-25, Page 9A FARM VOICE
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Editorial
Higher education
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Denouncing the educational
system, teachers and students
seem to have become a prevalent
past time of many. We hear about
the high-school graduate ' who
can't read, the freshmen who
must take remedial training in
English and Mathematics, and
the secondary school grad who
has little idea what the "three
R's" mean.
Parents and taxpayers look at
the staggering cost of Canadian
education, approximately $12
billion per year, and expect the
system to churn out a perfect
product every time.
One reason costs are rising so
high is due to the fact that the
number of Canadians enrolled
full-time in post secondary educa-
tion rose from 311,000 to 820,000
in the decade 1961-71. We have a
higher percentage of the popula-
tion attending school than any
other country in the world.
But do we want quantity or
quality?
Maybe people are screaming
(By Eleanor Johnstone)
French to many students is a
very unexciting subject. It may be
true that the French course is not
exactly thrilling, but no one can
say that Mr. Campeau's French
class is dull. Students stay awake
waiting for his next joke or
comments on the life-style in
Huron County.
Mr. Richard Campeau seems to
have been pre-destined to be a
French teacher. He was born into
a French family in the ._French .
community of Riverside, Ont.
which is now a part of Windsor.
He did not speak English until he
was six and went to a bi-lingual
school. After grade 10 he
attended an all English school.
From high school he went on to
teacher's college and then took a
job in an elementary school in
London. While there he helped
with the school's French
program.
After four years of teaching,
Mr. Campeau went to the
University of Windsor where he
received a B.A. While attending
school he acted from time to time
as a principal's relief when' a
principal who taught French was
absent from his school. Mr.
Campeau then went on to the
Ontario College of Education to
learn to teach high school. Mr.
Madill hired Mt. Campeau and he
came to Wingham in 1962 to
because schools do not meet the
ever changing public expectation.
School is supposed to discipline
the child and further more, it
must be done in accordance with
the parents' morals; though they
won't do it themselves. That way
the blame easily slithers onto the
shoulders of the educators, if
students turn to 'drinking, drugs
or delinquency.
Not only is secondary school
expected to teach the kids "hard
core" subjects but also self
expression, banking, sex educa-
tion, how to fix and drive a car
manners, morals, .how to write
the great Canadian novel, (and
how to read it), almost every-
thing; yet there is constant
protest because we have moved
beyond the traditional
curriculum.
Society has conditioned us to
remain in the very, institutions
which they are condemning.
"The better the education the
better the job" we have been told
and retold since primary grades.
The dropout simply can't survive
teach a mixed timetable of French
and English. For the past ten
years he has taught only French.
This past winter Mr. Campeau
attended night cthsses and this
month he will receive his M.A.
from the University of. Waterloo.
Studying has taken up most of his
time lately so he hasn't had time
lately for other things, although
he enjoys cross-country skiing,
camping•and working in his small
garden.
Despite , the relaxed
'atmosphere of. Mr. Campeau's
classes, he seems to command
respect which makes him a good
teacher.
Richard Campeau
anymore. Without a degree or
diploma, generally you are not
going to be seated on the throne
of fortune and fame today. And
the students of today didn't make
it that way. We just get the
feed-back, disapprovals and
whippings for societies ills.
(By Mike Moorse)
Recently Mr. Brewster's Geog.
441 classes went by bus to the
Hullett Wildlife Manageinent
Area on a pleasuring exercise.
After seeing the points of interest
at Hullett, we went to Point
Farms at Goderich for lunch.
In the afternoon we went to
:several local communities to
'study urban planning. Brenda
McCutcheon, Dave Stephenson •
and Steve Pletch told us the
significance of some of the old
buildings.
The next stop was Wroxeter
where \ Linda Hislop, Murray
Louttit and Joanne Ritchie
showed us around the pointed out
things of interest.
Last, but not least, we stopped
at Gorrie where Tom Graham and
Don Hastie gave us a grand tour.
We had planned on going to
Teeswater but we ran out of time
too soon. We got back to school in
time to go home.
Everyone enjoyed the trip but
we all thought it was too short.
THE BRUSSELS POST MAY 25, 1977 —9'
GeOgraphy students
.enjoy field trip
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French teacher
gets MA degree
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