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PROCEEDS FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE WORK
BY JOAN VAN DEN BROECK
TRUSTEE, HURON
BOARD OF EDUCATION
The value of a World Congress on Educa-
tion and Technology lies not in the
likelihood of transferring information into
direct local application, but in the ex-
posure to the creative thinking of
philosophers and researchers who are We
vangard for the future, standing as they
do, on the edge and looking out at a future
whose misty perameters are as yet
undefined.
They are, if I can make the analogy, like
the Indian Snouts from the American West
of yesterday - articulating the dangers that
lie ahead and suggesting safer routes. Like
the settlers of a bygone era„give wait in
safer places, unable to formulate the
shape or nature of our foreboding.
Some, like David, Suzuki, return from
their mental forays to warn us to be
cautious, stay another day, before foray-
ing into unknown territories where the con-
sequences are yet undetermined. Others
like George McRobie, Author of Small is
Possible, seeing the perils ahead has
determined that technological develop-
ment and the accompanying desk--l—
ing and
disenfranchisement
of the people are not
worth the cost in human terms. He urges
us to look at more humane alternatives
for, when `leisure time' for the few
translates into `massive unemployment'
for the many, the benefits are dubious.
The leaders of tomorrow are in our
schools today. How can we help prepare
them for the social upheaval that, it is
predicted, will shape.our future, where it is
perceived that artificial intelligence and
highly advanced technological develop-
ment will redefine the shape of work? How
can we assure the foundation of a humane
environment determined by the needs of
the people and not by the profit sheets of
mega -corporations?
In the next decade, it is conceivable that
computer companies will sell ,educational
instruction directly to the consumer,
bypassing traditional institutes of learning
and offering their own certificates. Will
young people -then become the products of
the corporation rather than a reflection of
the aspirations of the people?
It is questionable that we will be able to
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protect the traditional manufacttFing in-
dustries that have held us in goodtead in
the past. In Korea, where the ed ational
standard is as high as our own, th people
work for one-fifth of the Canadi wage.
We can not compete effectively i this en-
vironment without seriously downgrading
our standard of living. Reducing wage
scales to subsistence levels is not the
answer.
According to Stuart Smith, Chairman of
the Science Council of Canada, anada's
hope lies in the development of . new
technologies and products. For ample,
the development off lithium, an a inum
alloy, allowed Canada to win back his seg-
ment of the aircraft market lost t foreign
aluminum resource suppliers.In prder to
maintain a leading edge in world Oarkets,
we must, according to Smith, leap onto a
precarious treadmill - for knowlige will
be the new service trade.
Not every Country will be able to escape
through this knowledge intensive escape
hatch, but in the short term we wiGl be buf-
fered from the impact by our natural
resources. But what effect will his high
tech industrial development have on the
people and their employability?
Technologies today are quite,,different
from the technologies of tomorrow. Micro -
technology will have a more pervasive im-
pact on society than we have realized to
date. Despite the myth that ,t9cirnoiogy
ob s
creates jobs, according to United States
Bureau of Labour Statistics and
Forecasts, high tech industries are not
labour intensive.
In 1959, five per cent of the labour force
was involved in high tech occupations, the
same percentage holds true today and it is
not expected to change. by 1990. Ckill
changes within occupations have been
downgraded, not enhanced, by
technological developmepts according to
these same .statistics.
What skills will young people need to
cope in the society of tomorrow?
Sophisticated computing, skills? Not
necessarily. Through evolution, com-
puters will become easier, not more dif-
ficult, to operate as `think ng' functions
are incorporated into their design. As well,
high tech occupations (technicians, pro-
grammers, analysts, etc) are not expected
to be growth areas.
The exploding area of employability will
be in the human caring field and com-
munications. Who will be able to pay for
these services remains to be seen. Accor-
dingly, ethics and values education
becomes more critical than ever before to
ensure that, in the future, a man's worth is
not, like as in our consumerism society,
determined by his employability. A pro-
found evolution in thought that is quietly
eating away at the roots of tdtiay's value
system.
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SWIMMING REGISTRATION
Recreation uepartmeim r v y r
Registration for Swimming Lessons will be held at the ARENA this year on a first come, first serve
basis on: June 17, 18, 19, 1986 from 12 Noon to 5 P.M.
Classes Include: Yellow to Maroon - $20.00 for for residents
snoensidents
Blue to White - $24.00 for residents
$25.00 for non-residents
Bronze & Bronze Cross • $45.00 for residents
$47.00 for non-residents
(Price includes materials and exam fee)
Tiny Tots & Bubblers - $20.00 for residents
$21.00 for non-residents
Red Cross Leader Patrol: -minimum age is 15 years
-lune 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 1986
-555.00 for residents and $57.00 for non-residents
-Material and exam fee are extra (approximately $20.00 extra)
Lessons will begin: lune 30th to July 111th, 1986
July 21st to August 8th 1986
August 11,th to August 29th, 1986
Special Programs Include: Aquafit - $10.00 and $15.00
Adult Lessons - $25.00
Adult Early Morning Swim - $10.00 a Month or .75 each morning
Swim Team - $10.00
Senior Citizen Swim - $10.00
Private Pool Rentals - $33.00 per hour for 25 people. Additional $7.00 charge for over 25 people
*Details on Special Programs may be obtained during Registration.
One Entry Swim - (Daily) Admission: Children (Public School)' -.75
Season Passes: -
' scheduled Open Public
Students (High School) - $1.00
Adults ( 18 and over) - $1.50
Family - $4.00
will be available again this year. The Passes are valid 7 days per week for admission td all
Swims, Family Swims and Adult Swims. (where applicable, see conditions)
Children (Public School) -$18.00
Students (High School) - $23.00
Adults (18 and over) - $25.00
Family - $50.00
Public Swim Times: will be available in late lune - times apd dates will be announced at Inca! schools!
Pool Phone Number: 524-7812
By Mike Ferguson
arrzage is in vogue
BY MIKE FERGUSON
My faith and confidence in theinstitution
of marriage has been restored.
Upon my return to Goderich after what
has seemed eons, I was immediately struck
by the fact of the number of my former high
school classmates ringing th4 wedding
bells.
Marriage is back in vogue, or so it would
seem. My generation has traversed the
course through the free '70's into a more
conservative decade of the '80's.
Students now aren't interested in "finding
themselves,” but finding a job. I was lead to
believe hard economic realities precluded
any notions of marriage. But very week
within these pages I can glatjce at the
several young people who have already tied
the knot.
Is this a trend.. Are we to believe that it
lis now proper for a couple to say their vows
and make a commitment and get married—
just like in the olden days..
Some feminists will argue that marriage
is a convoluted form of male cdaquest. To
me, marriage is an equal d portunity
employer.
There is no doubt we as a sdciety have
witnessed a dramatic shift in ideals and
values, and we would be naive to deny it. A
poll taken only fifteen years ago, when I was
but a babe in Kindergarten and the word
"daycare" hadn't even been invented yet,
only twenty-two percent of the respondents
favored the idea of couples living together
before marriage.
A massive seventy percent wete opposed.
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Let's compare that with 1986 and we readily
come up with a completely different story.
Today, fully fifty-one percent approve of a
friendly pair cohabitating to explore each
other's habits, personalities; and quirks to
determine if they are compatible. So what's
wrong with that, people will inquire.
Breaking down the poll results will •
graphically display that so-called genera-
tion gap. Of those polled between the ages of
18 and 29, a significant sixty-six percent
were in favour. In the over 50 age bracket,
sixty-one percent were opposed to couples
living together.
Young people have been raised to be
wary. Every child remembers that oft- used
phrase: don't talk to strangers. And 'it's
buyer beware in the retail market. Shop and
compare before buying a product. Try it on
and see if it fits.
Perhaps this is what young people are do-
ing in their search for a mate; if we stretch
this analogy to its outer limits. In this in-
creasingly -impersonal society of ours,
where a conversation with a computer can
take precedence over that with a human be-
ing, the notion of spending one's life with one
person may be a frightening, pFdposition.
This is scary, and it's the reason why I am
sincerely heartened by the fagt of several
fellow GDCI grads signing that nuptial
agreement.
Confronted as they are with bewildering
divorce statistics, these couples ought to be
saluted for maintaining a heritage of that
obscure, ill-defined emotion called love. We
need more of it.
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