The Goderich Signal-Star, 1962-03-15, Page 7Well, Education Week is ' all
over
er fbr
anothe
r year,
thank
goodness, k
gOad ess, andweeducators can
get back to `the job of. leading
horses rs to water, without: being
urged on by fervent.' articles ' in
the newspapers and dull panels
on television.
* *
It's. _strange __Edcat
i sused
to ,be considered the mt
bor-
ing. topic in the world. Now,
it is a conversational . gambit
that will throw any gathering
A into a verbal donnybrook before
you can splutter "Egerton Ryer-
son."
• * * *
Chief reason is that every
adult who got past Grade 4 is
an expert on the subject. Every-
one has at least one cure for
the ills of the school system.
* *
People who used to be beaten
mercilessly by their leachers
for pure sloth will sit back
there with a big, fat drink in
their hand and tell you earnest
• ly that today's kids are "lazier'rn
hound dogs."
* * * .
Women who couldn't stagger
out of Grade' 9 because they
were so :absorbed in Joe, and
who quit as soon a they were
16 in order to marry him, will
declare vehemently that school
girls these days all "go,steady"
and think about nothing else
but boys:
=r* *
Merl -mho spend hours br = ,
w,, �:9utt'g _ _ tia;►�:rrrs'th"e
were at school, scream for
everything, short • of a Royal
Commissioto investigate, when
a teacher gives their Johnny a
dirty look, after he has `tried to
live up to the old man's..reputa*
'tion. •
Then there are all the people
who think that the job of the
school is not to educate people,
butto teach them how to mask e
'a' living,the : bigger 'the better,
This being so, "Why do :they
teach them poetry and Latin and,
nitthat jilnk they ' can -alter
use?'
* * . *
l'ni' not adopting .e holier-
than-thou attitude toward all
these -people. Before I wander-
ed from the Elysian fields of the
weekly newspaper into ;the
blackboard jungle, 1 too, sat
on the veranda 'of my glass
house and fired rocks at the
system.
: *
I still think there are many
flaws in it, many gaps in the
process, and a good deal of be-
wilderment about the direction
in which it's going, •but I am
also • aware of some of the
obstacles in the way of making
it perfect.
*
Perhaps the biggest of these
lies in the materials used. In
manufacturing, a product of
high quality can be turned out
if certain procedures are fol-
lowed: Obtaining the best ma-`
terials; using the best equip-
ment, and following the most
efficient methods.
* * *'
Blit in education, . e unit
coming-.ofi'.<the nolo io
`madEsn'd `u 0
breathesand thinks and fears
and rebels and ,laughs. You
can't mold.. or press it into the
desired standard shape and size,.
:cram it into' a package, and
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You• eah't,, b.causo ' there Ore
plenty of .people. -in the world
who i uld Mete' de k,st that.
I, "her big Conn* countries,
the)" : re try ng le do:it ;right.
w.. limey are= Navin a t
n4 g t►pp r
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bo,;dy piffles whn;ve. rt
he
. news -
Paper!, R.u, sannputc that .the
sinsare new' "taming out"
72131r. whateverger cent. more
engineers -
than we,- are.
I'td, like to- make a littlepro-
phecy;.„. _ Mart this down and
passitalong to :your children.
Hee i is: i
Those , r A t o
line education systems we fear
are 'currently sowing the seeds
of their own destruction •
* *
Whr? That's easy. Look at
what happened to the western
-world--when- they. began- educat--
ing' u "peasants. Now we think,
we're as good as anybody. We
topple governments; we criti-
cize kings; we demand ' more
money for less work; we thumb
our collective noses in the gen-
eral direction of authority.
* * *
What do you get when you
start educating the masses? You
get , a, lot of smart alecs. Or
smart Ivans, or smart Wongs.
Mark my words,- one of these
days their leaders will wake
up to it, but it will be too
late. When all those educated
Comp ies get sick of the same
old ideas and start looking
around for some new ones,
there'll be a tremendous ex-
plosion. You can't 'put every-
body in a concentration camp.
• * * ,k
And with these few confus-
ing thoughts,_ let us say fare-
well to Education Week as` it
slowly sinks out . of sight for
another' year.. And., let us spare
a tear for my son Hugh whq
chose this, of all weeks, "to
come home with his worst. re-
port card of the year.
Charles Of The Retz
I suppose you noticed the
coincidence in :the March tst.
issue 4f the Signa" -Star. On
page
ones
was. the report that
one
ofour
members r h
e
s
G.H.S.S. b ..
a
m
been'
a'`e.�
lack
d�.arat "
t ,y bigon,
East street, while on Paged' four,
Dr. Dymond, the Ontario Min-
ister.
in-ister. of Health, in a paid ad.,
a ropriately--said: `"Rats" Bath-
erpina ro ri tel- ° the' ad.,was
PP ,.� p a • y h
headed by . a . picture of a Sani-
van, such as. the port pf Gode-
rich possesses. Exactly how the
Sanivan contributes the con-
trol
ontrol of, rats is not immediately
clear, especially as one of the
finest and largest rat . nests is
maintained on the left bank of
the •Maitland River and is fed
daily—by. •the . Sanivan. After
130 years of `hard -slugging we
have, achieved the status" . of
"Port" (nor -alcoholic) and one
fine day we may persuade -some
of 'the --more inland inhabitants
of Ontario to subscribe to the
elimination of the 'dump and
its rat hatchery.
• But the above is not. the
burden of this harangue. Dr.
Dymond makes 'several state
ment§ which give cause for
thought, `even alarm. First he
estimates the rat population of
Ontario at five million. It is
quite obvious his census -takers
missed our dump. Then he
casts certain aspersions on rats
in general --filthy. kbits -.ob-
jectionableways—poor•clinibers
--burrowers'. All these epithets
made me think back to an ex'
periment which two psycholo-
gists at 'Illinois Institute of Tech-
nology once undertook with as
common alley rat. It is true
An
KNOCKS OUT MASTITIS
VELVEX
podia:v. wont MAsswst
•■ 10 GUAM Ran
GARGETEX
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•DINUTUA113 AND NEM
• UIDUCi3 IN/LAMMAl1GN ANO-
}W3UIND
•,O13N1-WIDE SANDE
ANTNIIOTIC3 AND SWIM
that Charles;' 'as he. was affec-
tionately .called, was born • in
the lab, but- it was decided • to
see 'what., his •'behaviour ; would
In were he taken into a. borne,
the other denizens, of witch,
besides' the two .psychologists,.
were some l
.tort es, Would he
beeozr►e a • socia
i climber? ,.. F or
home Charles was given an
old • rat trapo
from which., the.
fangs had been drawn, so that
;he might come andgo without
let or hindrance; just„ as the
spirit moved him. The spirit,
incidentally,. .. was __gin,.- because
Charles always enjoyed a mar-
tini before dinner, even as some
of the depraved citizens of
Goderich. Having said . this it
is clear that Charles was treat-
ed as one of the family. He
was well fed, invariably par-
taking of the same victuals as
the family and he was particul-
arly addicted to Cornish hen
and ice cream. Albeit he ate
at • his own dining- table and
always. washed his face and
paws before and after meals.
The effect . of his . environment
and good feeding on his be -
datrich eiurn . - Sit
'es who partook of ;ineItte in►
;legis' company and handled
vowed would net e ?
have. 'believe& the day would
dawn when they would toueh,,a
rat. But then Charles certai*.
hada way°with him
with the girls, At about 9 p.m
he would retire to, his bed and
*though the” ,springingg would
havebeen •considered'
ppretty
hard hY human standards he
was never liea d to complain.
It. wase of course, Charles,
grandfather- who .rose to fame
in a classical experiment to disc
cover a dope forimpregnating
binder twine
and through wh
ich
gra, of commoner -.laywould
rfue
refuse to bite. This ancestor
was gradually schooled to bite
through any. and every kind and
sort bf repelling 'chemical mix-
ture in twine. This schooling
was continued until the -High
Command of the ' International
Harvester Company was con,
lfident - that- -Charles grandpere•
was the finest gnawer of twine
in the Grain States. His pro-
wess became the control for
still further thexp ical,. combin-
ations until one d?; a formula
was found, which even Charles
grandpere refused to touch.
After such yeoman -_service on
behalf of man- it seems fitting
that Charles of the Ratz should
have been given' a place of
honor in a psychological house-
hold. -
. Dr. Dymond asked for sug-
gested .,topics for his column.
haviour was remarkable. Very the foregoing is ' respectfully
soon he assumed a long glossy, submitted,
fine haired coat of fur resembl-
ing sealskin, which he kept in
beautiful condition. He was al-
ways friendly and 'gracious,
never bit anyone, accepted tit
bits from visitors and generally
behaved like one of nature's
little gentlemen_ and as a • well
balanced , individual. He would It 'will ,pa
I
have been horrified at the port Signal -Star
7 * ft:
The second G.H.S. meeting
takes place tomorrow, 8 p.m.
In St. George's Parish Hall.
Bring the dollar for your dues.
Mr. Birkengran, of Sebringville,
deserves a good hearing. ,
you to read the
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Editor Signal -Star., 3
Dear Sir..
I .. was :interested•.. to' read Mr,
�dmarsh s recent letter'•e
'The Battle of the Goderich,
Beeeb; $,, As a.' summerg resin'
dent for the past ten Years,, X":
have . uclx first hand. -inform-,
inform-
ation Pontthe
4n u s i u n •
re-
ferred to,adventures, ures ,T
o t f •, My d 1t ..,;,as .
or my pace., en the
sand, have been many
and'
var.
ied- � st ofthe trouble seensto start at the 66' public
ac-
cesses ses. to theh
e
e s.
b . These
right-of-ways" are not designated
°
ch•':
ask
u
itoften' s e x s
t m s
r o b2
.f e
to tellwhen
you- are qn private
property. In some instances'
small groups of cottager; have
taken it . uponthemse ves, to
fence Off these accesses, plaster;
t . witlr;• "Keep Ott and" -..
vate ' signs. .This was the situ-
ation at. Bluewater Beach . for
several years. -
In one respect, however, your
community has scored a spec:
tacular "first" I doubt if there
is another area in .all of North
America where one family is
allowed to own and bar the
public from almost a axile of
��aly
i4.;1.90z..
s, Ontaio,'
Fuperb mend •beach' Whiff 610
Ilesidentsio Phielheneenglif
tourists; are /= I,.ed into SUM
200 Yards nar. row, spotty.
sand barely mild m
the ,point where, .ell the town's.
raw sewage enters. fake 'Huron.;
Ne small teat nglY leg p-
proach closer ' than f l0. from.
shore for the entire ilex gth of
thi, Private, � Pri t 'heath. be. ?the �s0,e
f milt' also own the . large
l On •the• .. x
�., fou i�;. s .de of the.
rivers ' moutri there osin
.� by ei .i..:.
t.. the public . ':e .onty spo;
where .�s owners x.ers a
��.yy
back r'er, 1 water's t :e e
..
,,��,. dg.
While • yo 1 fathers are
to, . b
.e coram ,tided for doing.tb
.ee
best they caan with the 4SInall
portion Of beach available to'
then, -its proximity to the open
sewer is alarming. ,1. cannot
;understand: ;.wby some action.
has not been taken to acquire
rights,. at least ;"high water.
mark" . this--nor'th.-bE ach, erect
some sort of a cheap foot bridge
across the river's mouth. Being
screened` from sewage by both
piers and comparatively clean.
water of the river, it would be
hard to find better bathing any,
where in Ontario. And let us
hope a few years finds Gode
ri li- with a sewage system.
Surely there could"be no better
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