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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-03-27, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZifNS NEWS` THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1975 Education and wisdom The highly educated person is not necessarily a wise person. The unusually clever person does not always show wisdom in his cleverness. You can have a high I.Q. and still not be wise: Wisdom, real wisdom, can come to persons of quite ordinary intelligence. Wisdom is not so, much a matter of intelligence as of what is done with intelligence. Teachableness is as significant as intelligence in the attain- ing of wisdom. And that is not simply a capacity to take formal instruction and pass examinations --although such things can be significant. A.N. Whitehead, one of the most influential philosophers of our time said this: "A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on Gal's earth." He added, "Now wisdom is the way in which knowledge is held. It concerns the handling of knowledge, its selection for the determination of relevant issues, its employment to add value to our immediate experience." In any education that is to count there is an inescapable element of sheer dogged grinding. If you wish to advance from milk to meat you must be prepared to chew gristle. And you mustn't expect to be spoon-fed: as the novelist, E.M. Forster, put it, "Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." What we do with our educational opportunities has much to do with the degree of wisdom to which we attain. Stephen Leacock once said, "An education, when it is all written out on foolscap, covers nearly ten sheets." Leacock made an important point there: much of the real value of your education is to be found in what remains after you have forgotten much of what you deliberately set out to learn. And in that can be an essential source of wisdom (contributed) 0•0•••••••••••••600••••••••• .•,• • • • • • 000•0000•0000•0 • •'• • p • March 20, 1975 Zurich Citizens News Mr. Herb Turkheim, Zurich, Ontario. Dear Sir; The game of "Ringette" is coming! Ringette is a relatively new winter team sport for girls- and in this respect it fills a great void in winter pro- gramming for girls. The game was developed specifically for girls by Sam Jacks, Director of Parks and Recreation of North Bay in 1965. The popularity of the sport has indicated that it is indeed serving some very specific needs. The Exeter RAP commit-+ tee would like to determine whether or not this activity could fill any local needs that have been left unattended. So, we are holding a three hour introduction and demon- stration clinic to the game of Ringette. This will be held at the Exeter Arena on Sunday, April 6 from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Representatives from the Ont- ario Ringette Association, as well as a couple of representat- ive house league teams from the Waterloo area will be cond- ucting the clinic. We are opening this clinic to all of the schools and Rec- reation Committees in the South Huron Area, as well as to all the local residents. We urge you to spread the word and have the young girls attend too, in order to get their react- ion to this sport. Hopefully, some of the schools will be interested enougi to consider introducing it into their physical education curric- ula for the 1975-76 school year. In this way, we willbe able to make better use of the arena time thatis available during school hours and still add to the program opportunities for the girls in the area. If the sport can be introduced in this fashion audit proves to be popular, we would then be in a position to expand theprogram and lay claim to some of the arena time outside of school hours. To do so now, without proof of the sports° adaptability and popul- arity would be foolish. I sincerely hope that you will make an attempt to have some- one in attendance at this clinic, for I think that you will be amazed at the possibilities , created through this new sport. There is no charge for this clinic -it is a public service program sponsored byour RAP Committee and Sport Ontario. Yours truly Jim McKinlay, Director of Recreation, Exeter, Ontario. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURICHEIK Publisher Second Class Mail Registration plumber 1385 ��pt lift, Member: iE� CA Canadian Weekly Newspapers. Associationvignm.' Ontario Weekly Newspapers Associationft p$1 Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year -in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States find Foreign; single copies 15¢ interisa'ti�nai .Sc.� (by Raymond Cannon) PHNOM PENH IN THE NEWS The name Phnom Penh can been constantly in the news :-he past few weeks, mainly in connection with the serious fighting that has been going on around the city. By the time this appears the city may have fallen but that will make little difference to the situation which is a very confusing one in the minds of a great many people. To help reduce this confusion, I would like to tell you a bit about the place and why there is fighting there. To begin with, Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia which is part of the former French colony of Indo China. The other three pails are Laos and the two Vietnams. which will go a long way toward expl- aining why there is fighting going on. There hasn't been much of anything else ever since the French were forced to get out in 1954. In that year Indo China was divided up into the four parts and Cambodia had as its first leader Prince Sihanouk who was, to be honest, not known for his effective leadership. He sort of muddled through but that is about par for the course in that part of the world. To quite a few Cambodians, he didn't crack down hard enough on the left wing elements of the country which were actively supported by North Vietnam. His unwillingness to crack down eventually led to his being over- thrown by a military coup d° etat led by General Lon Nol. Sihanouk was forced to flee and he ended up in all places in Peking. This is rather amus- ing when you consider it for it means that we have a left wing government in China giving asylum and support to a right wing prince. In the meantime the left wing forces in Cambodia which are known as the Khmers Rouges or Red Khmers didn't let a change in government worry them too much. They went on fighting Lon Nol just as they had Sihanouk only more so since the General was cons- iderably more reactionary than Sihanouk. They were given constant support from the com- munists in North Vietnam al - Mr. Herb Turkheim. Publisher Zurich Citizens News Dear Mr. Turkheim: "Heart Month" in Canada is now over, and on behalf of the Canadian Heart Fund, Ontario Division, please accept our sincerest appreciation for your co-operation and assistance during our financial campaign in February. Our objective this year was $3, 600, 000 and although all returns are not in, due to the disruption in our postal service, we are quite hopeful that our objective will be attained. Without your willing co-oper- ation in communicating our needs to the public, the Can- adian Heart Fund would not be able to express such an outlook. Heart Disease is everyone's problem --and again our thanks for helping us bring to the att- ention of the public, that -- research should be everyone's responsibility. With best wishes. Yours very truly, Canadian .Heart Fund (Ontario Division) Esther M. Richards, Director of Public Relatioc. though I think it is safe to say that not all the Khmers Rouges were dyed in the wool comm- unists. I just think they don't like right wing governments, especially oppressive ones. If they are in opposition to any communist forces and so Washington has backed the Lond Nol regime right from the beginning even though it must have had some doubts about its effectiveness. Right now the question is not whether he is going to survivie but how long he can hold out ha the capital even with the aid that the Am- ericans manage to fly in. By the time you read this, Phnom Penh may have fallen to the Khmer Rouge forces. If it does, it is doubtful whether the victors.will have anything to do with Sihanouk, even though he is living in Peking and Is presumably being supported by the Chinese. If I can go out on a limb, what may happen is that there will be some sort of left wing govern ment, not necessarily complet- ely communist but probably dominated by the, . This will make the situation in South Vietnam that much more ser- ious, especially since Saigon has been unable to hold back the communist forces that are already there. I hate to say it but it appears from here that, in spite of all the American efforts in that area in the last ten years, all of Indo China is going to end up under the influence of the communists, something that is very little consolation indeed to the many American families which lost members in that most frustrating of wars. Bangkart, Tte!!y, Doig and Go. Chartered Accountants 268 Main St., Exeter ARTHUR W. READ Resident Partner. 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