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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1960-11-03, Page 2solved, not by a provincial .de- part xn e n t of education, but through the classroom teacher in contact with the parents of • tier pup 1 "Education may be 8 provin- cial responsibility, but it is the. parent in Sydney 'and in Bran- don, in. Quebec, Vancouver, and Maple Creek, who decides whe,l• liter education is good or poor, Na pamphlet or book supporting- one or the other point of View 04tweighs with the parent his . personal opinion. of the job the. school is :doing. It is only through, the individual teacher that Cana:::: than education .can hone to re,' taro the confidence and stippoll - of the public."' Home and School ASSOCIATION Meeting Tuesday, Nov. 8 ;Have YOU given to the blind fund? .poot 2 The, TimowA0voult? .Novomb4r 1969.* 5 5 Throughout the history of edu-' and phenomena of nature were cation, there has been.debate of greatest importance and as over the aims and objectives of such he could be termed a fore-runner of the modern scientific a sound educational program and group of edueators, Froebel, as the best method of achieving; one of the leaders of the Psycho-those aims and objectives. At . no stage of history has there logical School, believed that tire'knowledge was not an end in it- "what" been complete unanimity on : self but only a means of awak- and the "how." 1 ening the e mind, strengthening John Frederick Herbart em- the individual, and guiding him Dila sized the teacher and his to reach his higher destiny. technique in the classroom. Pee-1 Teacher is the key talozzi and Froebel made the child the important person in the The key person in any educe- , classroom. To the latter two edu-, teacher. His ideal should be to cators of the eighteenth andi foster development of theintel- , is the same highly nineteenth centuries, the teacher trained per- : lect of the individual pupil tp i son as Herbart would have, but: the limit of its capacity. he knows how to remain in the 1 The first f unction of the [backgeound, while he guides the , schools is to teach children to :child in the development of his: read. write, and calculate — the tee By 4QHN OPMAN 14* Pplejle School Impoctor •S• ° the eve of Education Week, isit: is a Privilege to be given the soPPortelnitY ,of saying a few words About education on behalf ,ef my co-workers in the schools. Articles on education appear regularly in our daily and week- ,ly papers, de Well as in. various —Inegezinee. It is rather sigitifi- cant that the critical articles -4:outnumber the complimentary cOnes by a wide margin, Few "'People would suggest that one can become a medical or dental "Apecialiet by sending one's child to the doctor or the dentist, yet —many writers seem to believe elhat one can become an expert on education by simply sending -one's child to school. s... An article in the current issue -eof a metropolitan weekly news- paper depicts modern education as one continuous period of play 'efrom kindergarten on through the grade's. I find it difficult to recognize the situations so gra- phically portrayed in this article and I wonder out loud how many classrooms and h o w a n schools the authors visited be- fore bursting into print. Many publications thrive on controver- sy and no doubt critical articles are much more saleable than eomplimentary ones. It is not my intention io sug- gest, by adopting a defensive role -in the face of the critics of edele,ation., that everything in our sehepls" is in excellent shape. Certainly there is room for im- provement and all conscientious educators strive daily to bring about improvement. It is relatively easy to be al-. cal but it is quite another thing; to 'offer constructive criticism , and to suggest ways and means by which improvement can be: brought about. Are those who' criticize prepared to serve on their local school board? Are: they: prepared to encourage their, obviously gifted children to enter' the teaching profession? Are they prepared to support high er school taxes, if need be, to en-1 tice competent people into the; profession. and into their local ' school? , y ; Anniversar at 'Whalen es constructive interest in schools lit :familiar Three R's Critics' opi- own powers and persona . through his own interests and ac- nions to the contrary, fundamen- t tivities. i tals, are being taught by much b Rousseau, in his clay, said,etter methods ( and learned "Take the reverse of the ac- I1 more effectively) than they were . cepted practice and you will al- 20. 40 and 50 years ago. most a 1 w a ys do right." Evidence of the truth 'of this statement has been provided in ; showed contempt for knowledge a doctoral thesis by H. R. Part- 1 gained from books, and yet his low„espey gemeeintencleat of pub-: own fame is almost entirely due' lic schools le' Noetle yet*, He to books. based his conclusions on a sur-: Today we have the same lack vey taken in the public schools 1 of agreement on the aims of of St. Catharines and the corn- : education end the means by parison of those results with which those aims can best be tests of a sitnilar. nature. given fulfilled. Shall we teach simply , in St. Catharines some 30 years !the useful and the practical? ,ago. In almost all cases, he, dis- Shall we permit the Russians to covered that the pupils of tneay influence our schools and place . achieved hotter than 'our major emphasis on science? their predecesSors. efeeesteeeSseSiMeeerrerieseee'eSees eleeereteesse • In conclusion, I should like to quote from an article written a few years ago by Freeman . K. Stewart, the executive secretary of the Canadian Education Asso-' elation, lie wrote, 'It may he said that Canadian educators are attempting today to find shelter, Lone-standing debate ileousseau believed that the fads EXETER PUBLIC SCHOOL--Tuesday, November 8. Meet the teacher night from 7 - 5:30 p.m., followed by .liorne and School Association meeting with 14r. Donald Williams, supt. of Ontario Training School for Boys at Guelph, as guest speaker. GRAND BEND PUBLIC SCHOOL—Monday, November 7, Featuring a display of children's work and an opportunity for the parents to meet the teachers from 7 - 9:00 p.m. 4, A. D. McCURIQY SCHOOL, HURON PARK—Tuesday, November 8, Open house from 7 - 9 p.m. Le/CAN. PUBLIC SCHOOL—Wednesday and Thursday, No- vember 9 and 10. Parents are invited to the school at any time and to sit in on classroom procedure. ZURICH PUBLIC SCHOOL—Wednesday, November 9. Child- ren's work will be on display, and parents and friends will be able to meet the teachers starting at 7:30 p.m. HENSALL PUBLIC SCHOOL—Tuesday, November 8, Open house will start et 1:30 p.m„ at which time parents and friends will hear readings of various grades, choral groups of various ages, and pupils will eaport on what they are studying in the various aubiecis, After • the program visitors will visit the .claesroins• and see the children's work on display. STEPHEN TOWNSHIP SCHOOL AREA—Thursday, Novem- ber 10, The majority of schools will hold open house on this day from 2;00 to 4:00 p.m. The open house at. Centralia will be conducted .in the evening, USBQRNE TOWNSHIP SCHOOL AREA—Each school makes their own arrangements. Interested persons should con- tact the teacher of their area as to date and time. large, with .such. variations a l assessment methods, financial °f 'e u • f - • conditions, d 'igtreonne'sr, x. realistic. This country is ee; cation in Canada would be -mei .e SIC UCa t support, training and experience' in South - uron school of teachers that what pertains int one municipality or province I L. S. M. F. T. tional system is the classroom may have no application o.r trettel in another area, About the only safe statement one can make' about Canadian education is that it meets with varying de- grees of success. Self-improvement .enel Julian Huxley has said, "Man must now take a conscious part in his own evolution, or there, will be no evolution," In their ' myriad duties, teachers must in, elude the desire to lay a strong foundation in the basic moral values so that their rmils.will ibme nirnolvbeumeceintwith a will for self- imorovement. The schools are only one eche cational agency; the home, the church, the community, all share this recnonsibllity . ae success or lack of success in public edu- cation is not only the reennnee. bility of those directly inAlved bet is also the responsibility of , those who support the schools and through whose liefluenee. the schools reflect the values of their generation. Maintain basic values dte EDUCATION 8:30 p.m. EXETER pusoc SCHOOL folio-wing the OPEN HOUSE Speaker: Mr. Donald Williams , Sup't of Boys' Training. School at Guelph LUNCH WILL BE SERVED Key To Canada's Future Here,, and all ,through Ontario , thousands of citizens are going back to school next week. They're going back to see what kind of an e'dueation their children and their neighbor's children are getting. It's Education Week open house for citizens Who want a first hand look at the school system they have. You're invited, of course VISIT YOUR SCHOOL DURING EDUCATION WEEK — NOVEMBER 6 12 1.011011110iiiiiM1111011,11011/MillMilliif III I LET'S GO „. TO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK 1 By MRS,' FRANK SQUIRE 4 Rev. A. E. Duffield, Lambeth, 'Was the guest speaker on Sun- day morning at the 'Whalen United Church anniversary. Special music was provided by the choir with Mrs. Duffield at the piano.. Autumn flowers were placed in the church. Guests attending and spending the day with friends were: Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kinsman and family, Chiselhurst, with Mr. and Mrs. Milne F'ullen. Mr, and Mrs. E. Squire, Exe- ter, with !Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Squire.. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fisher and Miss Verna. Coates, Exeter, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dickens, Lucan, with Mr. and Mrs, F, Squire arid Ron. Mr. and Mrs. Herman. Foster, Exeter, M.r. Harvey Parkinson, Kirkten, Mr, Ed Woodward, Stratford, and Mr. and Mrs. 'William. Heather, St. Marys, with .Mr. and Mrs. Ray Parkin- eon. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rawlings, Centralia, with Mr. and Mrs. Alton Neil, Rev. A. E. and Mrs. Duffield, Mrs. Rachel Duffield, Lambeth, and Mrs. Ruth Eddington, Lon- don, with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dliffield. Personal items Mr. and Mrs. Norman Had- -gins entertained the choir mem- bers of the St. Thomas Anglican church, Granton, at their home on Friday evening. Mr. Freeman Arksey and Mr. Don Pullen are patients at the St. Marys Memorial Hospital. Mrs, Ray Parkinson, Mrs. Bert Duffield, Mrs. Alton Neil, Mrs. William French and :Mrs. William Morley Jr. were at Cen- tralia United Church bazaar on Friday afternoon, Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Mellyille Gunning were We, Evelyn White, Lloyd and Ann, London, and Mr. Frank Parkinson and Glenn. Mr. end Mrs. Jackson Mc- Cutcheori, Murray and Bruce, and. Mrs. Mary Campbell, List- owel, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs, Jack Finkbeiner, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Squire were Friday evening guests of: Mr. and Mrs. Herman Foster, Exeter. Mr, and Mrs. Giles, Mitchell. visited on Sunday with. Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Pullinee, Mrs. Gordon Johnson enter- tained four little friendi of Mary's oil Saturday afternoon honoring her 4th birthday. Mrs. Chas.'Govan, her pupils end -pre-school children had a 'Halloween party oft Friday aft- ernoon at school, They had a t?erade of costumes, played ga,ines and lunch was served, Seeerel ladles in• the coin- 'Moray were among the Granton Lady Porevters who went by bile to IsuckhOW oft Monday evening for their Meeting, Mrs. Myhre, tendon, is spend- hig.thia week. with Mr, and Mrs. Bert Duffield and .tattiily. Mr. and WS. Jack Pinkbeiner, Jackie' and Jearifie, •Mr, and Mrs, *1W Neil and Dehald, Mr, and Mrs, Xdo HOdgsent, Barbara and Brian, Were triday evening *Iteate Of Mr, and Mra, William liodigtott, 1444011 celebrating several. birthdays. Mee. Xeng, Stratford, 'visited Ott Sunday with Mr, and Mrs, Allen Save Morley:I took over the togitiro (AAAsifieda, I have a 1960 six cylinder . Ford sedan that a man could not pay for, so it's' available for you at a good price . there's also a '59 Ford v-a se- den, beige and brown, driven by George Ptchardson, ox- manager of the Co-op. Reg Armstrong, our new salesman, used 'to 804 Renault before he saw the light and now has a 1950 Renault sedan with very low mileage Which he. will sacrifice fee $1695. I've got a '56 Fairlane V-8 two-door that I am. getting tired of seeing. It's been here so long that the thing rinds to me every morning, so lett the thing go at 3850.00 „ there's that - '55Poetiac ,V-8 • sedan, radio, and she's good. if you'll just give me $725 for it. she's yours. , Now ie you like Chrysler products.. I've got a '54 Dodge sedan that you can Steal from i me tor 5425,00. - 1 It these don't suit you,' we've got theta nriced from AlOO for, a '52 Studebaker roach right' up the line. In feet, t've. got, theill running out my ears. Trucks In the truck line, I have a 58 :rota P700 duritp,. .885 tires) On it, Give Me u Pee hundred I fael in a weak. ened condition this week dollar bills and she's yours. Clarence Cole from Walton traded in a '59 Studebaker pickup' with 30,000 miles on it, You could twist my arm for 81395. If you've got a motor for a '55 V-S I Dodge dump you can buy one with 900 tires on, it for 600 bucks, In one of my weaker mom- ents I bought a '53 Chev pick- up that. had a cracked block on it. Unfortunately I had to put in a new motor, but I'll let this black and white gent go for $500. Tractors If you think that custom ooerator is taking advantage of you for picking your corn for $56 a year (providing you're on speaking terms with a good batik). is all., the interest you'll pelt for a '57 Ford core picker. You get more 'cleat corn Tier acre than any other picker, Por those who want a good one, I've got a '51 Ford with less thee 1400 hours on It — $7n0.00'. boos the wife insist on you working the garden this Poor hay! Then fool her—buy her a used Planet Garden 'Tractor' fOr Christmas and give it to her now. EXETER and teachers for an ever in- creasing number of children, to teach these children the familiar basic subjects, the ways of de- mocratic living, and some em- ployable skills, At the same time as our society is growing lees certain of its goals, educa- tors are directing a great deal of effort to maintaining. through the schools, the basic values on which our society is founded.. “in striving to meet these ends, it is well to remember that the_ school is only one .a,gen- 'eY, and .not Always the most ire fleential one, in' the total edu- cation of the child, Formal .edu- cation will only be as good an agency as the Public, by all le- gitimate means, can he per- suaded to support. Miring the last centery emphasis was Placed on 'good cheap educa- tion.' An education which alms at . . being cheap anti is ly, in the long run, tb be neither cheap nor good: only rarely and by great good luck can quality Merchandise be obtained In a bargain basement. Canadians prefer good quality in merchan• disc, and it may he assumed that they also seek this virtue in public education. ° "Educationists might Profit- ably devote more time and at- tention to exnlaining to the Pub- lic, in terms they will under- stand, something of the aims and the problems of the schools, while at the same time encleav- orine to learn something of the needs and hopes of the parents. If education is to prosper in Canada, this fundamental nrob- lem in public relations will be SPECIAL OPEN HOUSE PROGRAM Tuesday, Nov. 8 - 7:00 p.m, at Exeter Public School Larry results You MIGHT AS WELL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MEI nider Motors LIMITED Ford w Monarch Feicon PHONE 624 Scho I is where fh home is a , And The Parents' Attitude Is At The Heart Of The Matter. For The Home Life Of A Child Will Influence And, TO A Large Extent, Determine His 'Attitude Toward Shool And Life In General, Parents And Teachers Have A Job Of.Teaching To Do, And The Happiest Solution For Doing That Job Well Is To Establish A Clear Line Of Communication Between The Parent And The Teacher, The Happiest Place To Achieve This Communication is . At Your Local School During Education Week, Attend pen o se School LEARN to live better 6 6 6 Support Local Education ONTARIO EDUCATION WEEK NOVEMBER 6 to 12 This Message it spec gored Ey These Firrn$ Who IiielieVa EducatiOn is The "Key To Ctoada's Pufurt" TUCKEY BEVERAGES • cONKLIN WAIN 'CENTRE JONES, MatNAUGHTON SEEDS W, Ht HODGSON CID. LARRY SNIDER MOTORS EXETER DAIRY 1.,TD- • 4 4 ie