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- Conestoga College of Applied
oArts and Technology is on the
move',-aCeordinge t011oss Mlltok
SeatOrth,,, in -tharge-. of. Huron's
-Conestoga offiee. '
In a, telephone converSation
With the $Signal -Star this week,
Milton said that Conestoga is
still hopeful of a permanent
school t� be located at former
CFB Clinton,, now officially
reported sold.
Several courses are already
• planned for Huron County, he
• said, with students eptolling how.
for all.
One is a personal
cleveldpnient plan course -an
electronics, course for
electricians -to -be held in ,the
• Ontario Hydro building at
former CFB Clinton. This
20 -week course will meet one
night weekly and will be a kind
of ..information study into latest
electrical gadgets for already
qualified electricians.
In co-operation with the
Manpower Retraining Program,
an academicupgrading course
will begin December 6 at Base
Clinton. Grades 7, 8, 9 and 10
will be taught, Milto..n said.
Beginning January 3, courses
i -commercial • cleirical_skills,
corintereiak sOterrOgraiihic duties
and a general commercial
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refresher course will be offered,
also , in connection with the
Manpower Retraining Prograin,
Milton pointed out hoWever,
that persons wishing to enio-11. in
• these courses 'should contact
Conestoga's Huron Office
(presently in:Seaforth, telephone
527-1090) for information and
assistance.
: Also in January, another
course for certified visiting
homemakers will be offered.
Milton reported that of the
graduates4rom the first course
held in Clinton last summer and
fall, almostall are , employed
now. He said several are w-orking
with the new Home Care
ei Program in the Seaforth area
while some others are on staff in
nursing homes.
Next fall; the first
• technological course -will be in
full swing at Huron's Conestoga
branch: rt will teach mobile
home and trailer technology, a
three-year course to be offered
to high school gradua, s
qt1s6-1'x'dimterp pi ,dr4
post -secondary two,year -course
in secretarial science.
Presently onstaff from
Conestoga in Huron County are
44 the administrator„ Mr. Milton;
one full-time instructor, Bruce
Bjorkquist, recently settled in
Goclerich; and Mr. Milton's
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secretary, Krs. Paul Rau.
Additional, staff vv.ill be
• required and will be sought
within the area, Milton said.
Professor James Church,
President of Conestoga College
of Apfilied Arts and Technology,
was one of the theme Speakers
this week- at the 45th annual
;convention of the Automotive
, Transport A-ssociation._4 of
Ontario.
A portion of his speech is
reported here: ,
"Man has been developing in
,an evolutionary sense over
hundreds of thousands of
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Cconestoga 'College begins opera
facts made possible by new
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arritieW totirS."'
"Somewhere. In 'Oar' hi§tbry,'
one of the developingepecies of
mammal became dependent on
tool making and tool using. This
led to the 'adaptotion of a new
way of life followed by no other
animal species. This new way of
life created a challenge to which
the species responded by
becoming even more dependent
upon the invention of better
tools,t-ools that could be used in
new ways. This' prectirsor of man
could effect his supremacy and
survive in hostile environments
both physical and animal. The
successful response to ' this
ehallenge via natural selection
aocelerated the tempo of the
evolutionary ehange to -man and
is still accelerating the tempo of
his evolutionary change.
"The 4-levidence as to where
this transformation took place is
, still lacking. We knOw. this"
precursor to man-, lived over 'a
tremendous area of Cho globe
some 500,000 years ago. By *.
40-85,000 years ago homo
.sapiens appeared in. Europeand
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living in North America. -
"He ,lived through glacial
periods when other species died.
He lived through sociological
upheavals such as from
paleolithic to, neolithis
cultures -from hunting nomads
to settled communitieS. This
specie, . this man, has been
toughened by the trials of the
evolutionary process. to this
present day and he will survive
and develop' as he has done to
date. 'The present is saturated
with the past and pregnant with
the future.'
"The tools we make today
are infinitely more complex than
those of our remote ancestors
but they are still simply better
tools to be used in new ways.
The computer -is -merely a tool to.
'handle soine of the more
mundane tasks of th'e -human
brain.
- "We are continuing to evolve
and we are continuing to learn
and human potential shows only
.signs of increase, not decrease.
drive cars or trucks or
,
--beinx, in ' today's World -in minds from our radio's, from our leadership so that . mon is
t afaki..s-infinitesimal ,sewter4 , in , .televigeno.,:frorn, sonyesoati.op., motlAtt.30. L9 Want to continue,
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"the'eVoliittOnarY-PrOcesi. . from the thousands of books ' to learn it matterS 11,s* one wh,it,
.' 'What -are' the ' real' 'Pralerns --that are- ProdueeteileVY 'Y'eit
man faces' and what can be done the extent that certainly some of
about - them? Let us Maintain us must throw up ourhands
perspective -let es not blind (mentally) in surrender to what
ourselves, with the historic appears to be on impossible
myopia to which ' I earlier situation;
"One questions how mO'ch
change the human being can
accept, absorb, and assimilate
and Che rate at which he can
take this change. One questions
our 'ability to standThp to the
results of on every increasing
rate of change in technology.
Can we change from the slow,
steady, evdlutionary rote that we
were accestomed to up to 1750?
Are we able to adapt to the new
process ways; to the continual
changingness which we must do
if we are to survive? "I am an
Incurable optomist. In the
perspective of evolutionary
requirements . guaranteed a history and believing implicitly
demand for the services of in the human potential, I am
blacksmiths, silversmiths and convinced that we can, nd will!
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ironmakers, a demand lasting "The.evolution of tter, the,
two or three generations. There evolution of life and the
was little change in technology evolution of man are integral
up until the time 'Of the parts of a single process of.
.
:CO' 'hOw -raPid flie rate of chOnge
becomes, it matters not one whit
how kaleidoscopic his life may
become -He caa -cope with it
and learn -motivated to follow
knowledge like a sinking star
beyond the utmost bOunds of
human thought.
"This ability to cope is the
evolutionary history of - the
speeies called -man-his human'
potential is capable of adjusting
to thie new environment. .,_ '
"Now, what can be done. 1
"We must harness our
'technology to assist us in this
process -and we are doing so.
Our mastery of the tools of
communicatio-n and
transportation is such that
learning need no longer be'
coermed to the four walls -ivy \
covered though they may be,
"We ' must establish instead
learning resource centres where
teachers will act a • facilitators to
help man find the frontiers of
his own mind -not enter the
house of the teacher's' wisdom.
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Renaissance. Nowadays social cosmic deveiopmentUsing our technology we mustof a single .
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referred. Examine with me what
has happened to man in the last
2000 Years. Our 'Oiamination
will, of riecessity, be extremely
limited.
"Over' this short period- of
time, man's life expectfancy has
Progressively increased from 25
years to 70 years. This is a direct
, 'result of the development of
technology and the resultant
&control of our enviroement and
disease. Over this sOme 2000
years the average life span of
sOcial change has decreased at an
alarming rate. In the days of the
Ronian Empire; basic soeiat
trace us back well over a million
years. As to the validity of these
claims we must learn as we go
and await our answers to this
part of our history, as our
archeologists ,and our
anthropologists- uncover new
and wetrk with each other, I)
wonder Whats.differeneOltMould
have mode CO the discussions?
To the .,health . of your
industry -to the health- of our
society? -I believe the, results
would be dramatic. -
"In Ontario alone we have
some 20 colleges of Applied.Arts
and Technology with 70
campuses' and some 14
universities with 24- campuses.
There is no reason that I know
why these should not be treated .
as learning resource centres.
There is no reason why any man
should not be Ale to stop in and
asr for learning assistance on
some point or other -to turn ino
tape forthe, next one in the
series. . Time takenwould be
amply repaid by the end result.
on the learning rate of our whole
society,
"Let me make myself
perfectly clear -this is only an
example of how 'we might use
Our "technology- it is not a
dehumanized replacement for
face-to-face discussion and
-° easi'Writ
that many People who Whole universe and it w -mostly underittitid-ill-
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graduate -from our educational continue.
should
md ebt be
chosen
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tenc°tmo mp eu rnmi ci at 9t oh ne
'system this year will have to "Mancan and will survive this
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update.prretrainas many as fivp tate of change and he'ean. do sci learner to)earn ahis wn.
times during their working life. by accepting the fact he must convenience and at the .time
It is expected that this -rate of adjest to a new way of lifie..)*, desired.
change will require 10 retraining must increase his ability l� aii "This year, two groups
periods by the year 2000. Our and involve himself in new
representing Management and
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children and our grandchildren methods of learning. union within kour industry
will be faced with thisprospect. "We must realize now, as almost arrived at a confrontation
before agreement was reached
"In this!_zame time span of never before in our history that
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2000 years • we have been °' education and learning must on items f mutual concern.
accumulating knowiedge at an assist individuals . to. face . "Today's to trucks and cars
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increasing rate -Staggering in its cont. in uOusly changi.,ng carrradios. Certainly, they
implications. From the year 0 .-conditions. We.rlitiSt 'rcould carry cassette type players
ealize nowy
'A.D: 'Lb approximately 1750 as never before in historY that if, with which ou are all familiar.
(The American ReVolution) our forinal education is practiced Let us assume that using our
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knowledge doubled. In the next strictly in .the terms of the already existing technologywe
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150 years (1900) it doubledcall On our experts in human, process of transmittal of what is
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again. by 1950 it had again known -it is education for the relatioesin industry'
doubled and doubled yet again Past and is obsolete -it's like ,(PsYch(*)1(-)U-sociology) for a
by 19.6a We ,tna assume a . driving down , the highway series Of lectures recorded on
continuation of this condition. looking iclissettes. Let us assume your
nto a rear view mirror.
y
. " our own cars are
Now think for moment if If, however, -we educate to learn.'
trucks and
you will of the slope of this facts and processes in Rich a equipped with cassette players.
curve depicting tWhile driving back and forth tohe-change in the mariner that we learp tro-w--ee
rOte.of growth of knowledge. By lthe office, while driving theearn, then we are educating for .
the time evolution had prOduced the "ability te live ,with todaytruck from point A to point B,,
the genius of Leonardo De Vinci and tomOrroW and the future. If both sides of this discussion are
(1500) the rate of growth of we edueate, give inspiration -and learning more about how to live
Aispatt, raCt'stly ,on,-44:ossil fuel -
dating back millions-efaears. In
the phenomen of evolution as
we understand it, the basic
building , blocks of • matter -
combined to form inanimate ,
minerals of solids,' liquids or ,
gases or living matter. Of .the
living matter, some took the
form of the vegetative world,
while others took the .path
leading to animate tissue, living
cells and the most successful
oUtcoree of these developments
at \present appears to be the
human being -man. As a result
of this evolution'man uses the
fossil fuel which he discovered,
which he learned to refine and
use in machines that he
designed.
"This is the perspective of
evolution and the perspective
against which we must measure
today's problenis.
"You are sitting here, in
comfort, in a man-made
environmen usm a in ,ing
ability to assess those problems q
of our age that affect us all as
individuals and; in this particular
in -stance, as an industry. We are
here because, as individuals, we
are collectively concerned about
what is happening to the human
knowledge was such that man
could ingest all of the increase of
knowledge available in his life
span. Examining the slope of the
curve today -for man to absorb
the new knowledge available:
during even part of his life span
is an utter impossibility.
"By analysing this curve,
ladies and geptlemen, there
appears to be only one answer to
this prohlem4specialize-and we
most , assuredly. do specialize. I
don't agree with this matter of
Specialization because it results
in strangulation of our proper
evolution. It may well be a type
of protective mechanism against' '
intellectual' inundation where we
are completely swamped with
new knowledge because of our
communications technology,
"Now let me tie this back to
my communication compression
that I used a yvhile, back.
"We are bombarded with
knowledge, with inpul. to our
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debate -for belongingness to a "We have the potential -me
learning 1. u -must, -retain o riet
"Wg could place in the hands.
of -our -very mobile population a
series of tapes which would
permit them to study history,
psychology and sociology that I
referred to earlier.
4 "All experience is an arch
thru which, gleams that
untravelled world whose margin
fades forever as we move.
"When we discuss the, subjecji
of man'in dey situationwern,nt
recognize three major abilities.
"His human potential to
survive change and to grow from
it -that is proven by the history
of the evolution of his body and
his brain.
"His human dignity -his
unquenchable thirst for a
god -like nobility -has 11,een
prOven by moral .evolution.,
"His ,-human destiny -man's
unending' ftlhdamental desire to
become all he 'ig 'capable of
being -to ‘add to the trace of
humanity some contribution -no
matter how small. ,
stignity-2.3keian. achieeJj.
destiny as yet undreamed. '
--"We have -the imaterials, we
have the memey,-I can see the
men."
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