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And the other night at a Lions' party we found ourselves swapping yarns about the little red school house which used to be. "That's how I got my start," I told her. "And believe it or not back in 1932 in Ontario I taught all seven grades plus first year high school for the magnificent sum of $550 a year!" We were dancing when I was trying to impress her with this information and she stopped right in the middle of our foxtrot and began to laugh at me. "And I suppose you think you were robbed!" she said. "Do you know what my salary was? When I started teaching in Quebec in 1940? Exactly half of what you got. The board offered me $275 and that was for seven classes. All in French, of course. But I guess the board members felt I could use a few more dollars than that so they made a special deal with me. They told me that there were a few English speaking kids they were responsible for too, enough to make four classes they thought, and if I would agree to manage them too they would manage to add another $25 to my salary!" So there was Perrette's first teaching job. Eleven classes in all, seven in French, four in English. Nine o'clock till four, five days a week. A half hour off_ for two recess periods, and an hour off for lunch. I forgot to ask her whether or not she was also obligated to light ,the fire in the mor- ning and sweep up at the end of the day. Chances are that she was, because more often than not those were ad- ditional chores expected of the teacher in yester-year's one -roomed country school. And I knew without asking that she was also expected to supervise such things as ball games, hockey games, con- certs, socials and any number of extra -curricular activities which were part of the way of life in rural Canada 40 or 50 years I am also pretty sure that in spite of its rigors and its wage, Perrette felt very proud and very privileged to have been given that job. I know that I felt singularly privileged when I got my first school because there was a sorrow- ful surplus of teachers in those days, and the trustees had a lot of us to choose from. Furthermore, those were the days when trustees made it a point to do a lot of re- search before they signed you up. Before I was hired, the trustees came to see me. They asked questions of people in my hometown. They formed opinions about me. The kind of certificate I had was of minor interest to them. Nor did they feel bound to adjust my salary according to the piece of paper I carried as my licence to teach. In short, they hired a person. I am afraid that with the coming of a regional board which is now as powerful as God and nearly as far away, the one important criterion for hiring is. the almighty certificate. That, and the number of years the ap- plicant has survived in the game. True, in spite of the fact that the trustees of those days could take a lot of time and care about selecting their teachers, not all of the people they hired were as dedicated and as competent as they should have been. And in a country school as in any other, a poor teacher can do irreparable damage. But it seems to me that when those old one -roomed country schools had the good fortune to be in charge of the right person, they sent a youngster into the world with a reliance and a competence and an attitude which our modern super-duper regional schools can never equal. Why do I say that? Because the three cardinal sins of modern schooling are these: our pupils are not teaching each other, our pupils are not teaching themselves, • and our teachers no longer know them. But in the little red school- houses where oldtimers like Perrette and • myself once dispensed learning, there �g0____J,vasn't a one of those sins. The second -graders reached across the aisle to help the primer kids, and the senior classes had to study on their own most of the time per- haps, because the teacher had so many other classes to attend to. And we know our pupils; knew their parents and their brothers and sisters; knew the smell of their kitchen; and knew, before they every started to school, which of them were likely to be poor in arithmetic. I have never claimed to be an educational expert. I doubt very much if anyone can claim to be an educational expert, at least until there is some agree- ment as to what we are educating for. But I have now taught high school and college and university, and that has thrown me into contact with a lot of people withdegrees in pedagogy and sundry other educational pretensions. But I have yet to meet anyone who can convince me that the demise of the one - roomed school was a cause for rejoicing: Heart Answers WHAT IS ANGINA? Angina, or angina pectoris, is a re- curring tightness or pain in the chest experienced when the heart muscle is not receiving an adequate blood supply. Angina usually occurs when the heart is called on to do more work such as during exercise, after a big meal, or when excited. Angina is not a heart attack, but both condi- tions have the same underlying cause — hardening of the arteries. A diet low in saturated fats and choles- terol may help reduce the risk of developing angina. Contact your local Ontario Heart Foundation for more information. ct? ONTARIO HEART FOUNDATION I )IOnHO, dwnai 31Vld NIO1 LIn2 LEM NOW IN WINGHAM! 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