The Rural Voice, 1986-09, Page 21and had a staff of four teachers.
Some I respected, some I admired,
and some I would have liked to
emulate. However, our scope was
limited. There were four
classrooms, one of which was a
chemical laboratory. There was no
gymnasium and little equipment.
We had a football that we kicked
around; we had a basement with a
wooden horizontal bar and a ceil-
ing ladder, a pair of short -strapped
rings and, in my first year, a set of
parallel bars were purchased. Oc-
casionally were were lined up for
formal P.T. exercises but most of
the time our P.T. instruction con-
sisted of loafing in the halls or
playing football or baseball. We
had a literary society which put out
spasmodic efforts in the way of a
paper that was written on
foolscap, a few songs or musical
efforts, and possibly a debate on
some such subject as "Resolved
that Canada should have Free
Trade."
We were living at a time when an
education was not particularly
respected. Most schooling seemed
pretty impractical to a society
largely concerned with the price of
beef and getting the hay saved
when dry. What was the value in
knowing that "amo" was a first
conjugation verb that meant "I
love" or that Hannibal crossed the
Alps riding elephants as beasts of
transport or, for that matter, that
(x + y)2 = x2 + 2xy + y2?
We were intelligent because,
after all, we had passed a fairly
demanding entrance examination.
As a student body I think we rated
higher than today's classes. We
were at school because we wanted
to better ourselves. We were there
because our parents wanted us to
be educated and were willing to
make considerable sacrifices to
give us the opportunity. Our
teachers were in that enviable posi-
tion of having a selected student
body, co-operative parents, the
authority to exact obedience, and a
fixed course of study with ade-
quate texts. They lacked luxuries in
terms of environment and equip-
ment but they did produce a high
percentage of students prepared to
enter any institution of learning
and to choose any profession.
Thus I was saved by my times. I
did not know what I wanted to be
but I didn't need to know. If I
finished successfully that was
enough to start with. ❑
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