NOVEMBER 16. 1953 l

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THE GUARDIAN.

Widening Educational Horizons

young people should be taught to think for themselves as well as to memorize things and use their hands, after a fashion - all of which would be revolutionary and

A FOREWORD

uy Win. A.' Maofheo. Supervisor of

Teacher Training, Prince of walea College

Behold all things become next! schools; methods, curricula. even our Educational Horizon has taken on 3 new look and has been re- newed in name and spirit. The -widening Educational Horizons" .; going to be a. continued .aid to the teachers-in-service in the province and we in the teacher- xraming department of Prince of wales College will be glad to help.

Education is at the crossroads or are told. Which road am we ggmg to follow, the old or the new? some people believe that all a teacher needs to be successful is a thorough knowledge of the sub- ject matter to be taught. They would contend that far too much mm; is spent on methodology and on getting pupils adjusted social- lv, not nearly enough time on the three R's. and necessary funda- mentals. In our own Province, uhere many of the teachers are toung and inexperienced, certainly l,-ome provision must be made to mm teachers to conduct classes properly and to teach different types of lessons. The best methods of educating efficiently should be made available to every teacher in lllc Province, to the old as well as to the young. The older members oi the profession very often need to review and remodel their meth- nds to keep pace with the ever changing world in which we live.

The success of our education de- pcnds bn the calibre of our teach- prs, A good teacher knows her subject matter. drills faithfully on lhe fundamentals, maintains an orderly classroom, and above all ndeavourn to have her pupils think clearly. she cannot make difficult things easy but she can motivate dull things and make them interesting. A wise and ex- perienced teacher will try the dif- ferent methods to see which will work. using neither the old entire- ly nor yetthenewbutshe judicial- ly selects and utilizes the best from each.

A project such as "Widening Educational Horizons" which is en- deavourlng to further the cause of education on Prince Edward Island should be widely read by. and receive the hearty support of all our citizens.

PR IMAEY Natural science '

Last week we talked of the leaves and how they got ready for win- it-r. You will notice that they are nearly all off the trees now.

There is something else we are missing from the out of doors these days, it is the birds; there aren't so many around the frees HOW. '

Where do they go in Autumn?

. Well the birds are flying away

and when they fly away we say they l'n.lgmte. Wild ducks and geese are migrating now and so are rob- ins and blackbirds. They fly a. long. long uuy to their winter homes Most of them fly at night. Some- times you can hear geese honk- ing at night, they are migrating.

Most birds come together in (looks before they migrate. They travel together on their long trip routll. some day you may see the bushes in your yard full of birds, these have lived north of us dur- ing the summer, they are migrat- ing now and have stopped in your Yard to eat. If your yard is a mod feeding place they may stay A few days.

Some birds do not go away in lhe Autumn. they stay with us all winter. Food is not always plenti- ful for them in whiter especially if there is much snow. It would he a very kind act if school chil- rlrrn put out food for these little t'l'0alure.s.

Busy Work For The Beglnntra

Perhaps by now your beginning children have learned id recognize me three primary colors and the uords red. yellow and blue. - if 9”. Rive each child a large piece 01 Duper-wrapping paper will do --make three columns and on the lull print the words thus:

k RED YELDO-W BLUE

V r 5 T l 'l . l I. 1 l l l I I it (live the children old magazines. mad blunt point scissors, ltavc them 1 rut out red pictures. yellow pic-l films. aridcblue pictures and paste mom under the correct word. This activity will kerp lhom

llllsy as well as show that they know the words and colors.

INTERMEDIATE Knowing I Good Paragraph .

Read this paragraph Written oyl fl Grade V pupil: - . Fl"? Hppearance IX dainty Miss Crocus is I sign that spring has Wine. She surprises us just as the snow disappears. Through a ;:rack pin the earth a'tlny. green shoot P0695 info that new world. Soon three or four slender leaves and a lfllnw or purple flower show them- -9C.'l'Ps. The Crocus is a beautiful My in a silken gown. welcoming -lllrmg, If this a good pa.ragraph'I iou have learned that a para- mbh is a in-cup of four or five food sentences. How many sen- ences are there in this paragraph? 01! at each one and see if it is mmplele. Are .there too many AND. and AND SO. sentences? Are the periods and capitals pinc- their proper posltlcns?

The story should be about one per head of'pop-ulatlon, a figure thing only. What I! this story exceeded only by New Zcnllnd. Ilbout? Does each story keep to As well, Canada ranked first the Point? as a supplier of goods to the Unit-

There should cod begln- ed Kingdom and to the United "in: nentcncv. it each tell what States, accounting for 9.2 per lh-C Wary is about. It should. also. cent of the U. K.'s imports and

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a seat in the House in Bonavistiu Twlllingate.

largest trading country in 1952. Total

"I want to hear the rest of 22 per cent of the trade of the

the story. Do you think it does these things?

The story must have 0. good ending sentence. This sentence must make you feel that the story is really complete and it must do this in an interesting way. Does the sentence, "The crocus is a beautiful lady in a silken gown welcoming spring-"-satisfy you?

Finally a good story does more than just tell what -has been done, what has'been seen, or what has happened. It also tells what the author feels or thinks about these things. Find a word in the second sentence that shows that the wri- ter of this story is telling what she feels or thinks.

Synonyms

words that have almost the same meaning are called synonyms. It is most. important that pupils know a number of synonyms so that they can vary their speaking and writing and thus make it more interesting without changing the meaning.

Examine the following paragraph and have the children tell what is the matter with it.

"The elephant is a big animal which roams the big jungles of Africa. it is armed with big tusks. When frightened, it trumpets I big call."

After the class has discussed its weakness, re-write it using syn- onyms for the word "big."

"The elephant is a gigantic ani- mal which roams the vast jungles of Africa. It is armed with huge tusks. When frightened it trum- pets a tremendous call."

This second paragraph shows how important it is for you to know a number of words which have almost. the same meaning.

The following words are pairs of synonyms arranged in no particu- lar order. Re-arrrange them in pairs so that each pair will be synonyms.

fright book want hamper fast hinder loving rapid affectionate weary tired volume fight need bottle fear SEN 1011 Ambuudon

Canada has named Edmond Tur- cotte as its first ambauudor to Colombia.

H. Hume Wong, Canada's Am- bassador to the United States is returning to Ottawa to become un- derseeretary of state for extomni affairs. He is succeeded in Wash- ington by Mr. Arnold D. P. Heeney. Mr. Heeney has been Canada's penmanent representa- tive to the North Atlantic Coun- cil and representative as the Of- ficer of European Economic Co- operation. Taking over Mr. l-leeney's former duties is Mr. L. Dana Wilgrn-s. Mr. Wllgress has been Undersecretary of State since i952.

Senate Appointments

Prime Minister Bit. Laurent an- nounced the appointment of four new senators on May it and seven

more on June 12.

Those named in May were:

lvlnie. Marianne B. Jodoln, Mon- treal. I Mn. Muriel M. Ferguuon. Pred- l erlcton. N.B. J. Walter Jones, Charlottetown, .E.I.

Allan L. Woodrow. Toronto. Those named on June 12 were: Hon. W. Boss Mlwbcmald, spealt- ' er and M..P. for Brantford. Ont. Joseph A. Bradette, M.P. for Cochrane, ' Leonard D. S. Tremblay, M.P. for Dcrchoster. , ' Sarto Fournier, M.P. for Maison- neuve, Rosemouut. N gurel D. L. Leger. MP. for Kent,

John J. Connolly. Ottawa. l-'r-ederic Gordon Brad.-levy, Sec-

lretary of State. The appointments reduce. to 12 the number of vacancies in the me-seat senate. There are now .four women in the Upper House. I The provinces are represented in . the Senate-as follows: i 4 l

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Newfoundland P. E. I. .

lN. s. N. B. Quebec

Manitoba Sask.

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Privy Council

Mr. George Drew is the first op- position leader ever to be appoint- ed to the Privy council in Cm- ada. Prime Minister St. Laurent made the appointment in order -to give Mr. Drew and three other Privy Councillors appointed nlong with him. a larger status at the Coronation.

No one is named to the Privy Council without a record of long

life. New Appointments

John S. Mo.Dlarmid. a former member of Manitoba's l'.:lberll-Pl'o- gresslve government was appoln f Lieut.-Gov. of Manitoba effective Aug. 1. He succeeds Hon. 3. 1". Macwiillams, retired. v

Sydney D. Picr:.:, Canadian Min- ister to Washington was appoint- ed Ambassador to Brasil. effective August l.

J. W. Pickers-gill was elected to

Newfoundland. Mr.

Piokerqili was at one time, private

secretary to the late Han. W. L. King. '

Canada In World TI-Ids

Canada was the world's third

trade amounted to am

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United States.

a was also the leading forellm Purchaser of the United sum goods. and was fourth as is market for the goods of the United Kingdom.

The following are eaicerpls from an address by Dr. R. C. Wallace. former principal of Queen's Unl- verslty. to the Women Teachers' Association of Ontario.

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The most important thing about the teaching profession is the qualities that make a gdod teach- er. Probabiythe best my to get some appreciation of what these qualities are is to think about those who were our best teachers. .and consider why they were so good. What were the qualities that counted in these teachers? Above all, I think understanding and sympathy. Then knowledge wide and accurate. An unfailing sense of humor, enthusiasm. and. in the women, charm. There were doubt- less other things, but these remain in my memory as significant. They made these teachus great.

so much for qualities. What about the status of the profes- sion? Here we labor under two disabilities. The first ls.ti-lat the work of the teacher is with young people who do not yet count in the larger affairs, and that in it- self restricts the interests of the teacher. He or she is not likely to take part in these move- ments of local or of world significance as is, for example. the lawyer whose daily work has to do with such problems. It. is 1. fast that the twchetr is less effective in matters outside his profession than are many in other pr ' Tons or in business. And he talks shop too much and associ- ates with those who can talk the

Mn. Pundit

At the General Assembly of the United Nations in me Mr. Vljaya Laknhimi Pundit was the first woman to head a. delegation tol the United Nations. she led the Indian delegation during that ses- sion and now in 1953 she is the President of the Geneml Auem-bly. In the years between she has served as ambassador to -the U. 8.5.3. and the United States.

Mrs. Pandit is the sister of Jaws.- harlal Nehru; Prime Minister of India. one has three daughters and four grandchildren. 1-fer hus- band. the late Ranjit Pundit, was I. barrister-in-law.

Drama

Those of you who are interested in the yroduotion and growth of Drama in our Island Province can not be other than interested in the report of the Drum: Festival held in Stratford, Ont., this last July. .

"what has been described as the most exciting nl0ht'in the NDWVIW of the theatre took place in Stratford. Ont, with the opening production of Richard III in the Stmtford Shakespeare festival on July 18.

"The festival was extended for one week beyond its original five weak plans due to the great in. terest in the production. Drama critics have been etnrthused over Tvrone Guthrie's production of Richard III and All's Well Tim-t Ends Well-over the vision of Tom

pggmwn md the own. De N same kind of shop. That is not of Blaltford wtho luve mule gm: fgf "'3' '0 M” "l ”” '”"""""'

adventure in expert theatre."

While we may never hope to MINI N115 height of attainment nevertheless it does mow wing can be done in the face of diffi- c&e: and sometimes public criti- c .

Dr. Leyoock

on Nov. 13 Dr. B. R. I..a.ycock will be in Charlottetown. He will meal: in Prince of Wales College at two o'elott in the afternoon and again in the evening o'clock. His afternoon address win be "How to Make Home and School More Effective”. and in the eve. NP-8 he. Will 19981: on "Education, A Joint Responsibility for Home, Bchaol. and Oommunity."

Dr. Leyeoek, whorls Put Preoi. dent of the Canadian Home and school, is one of Canada's out- standing child psychologists, an author and educator. In June he retired as Dean of Education from the Univenltw of Saskatchewan. He has just returned from a tour of England and the Scandinavian countries where he studied home and school problems. Every teach. or should embrace the opportuniify to hear this gifted mean;-, He will have a means for you 1.;

The other disability is that a large proportion in the teaching profession have a low level of qualifications. It is frankly not good enough to dignify with the name of a. profession In occupa- tion vvhioh can be entered with only one year of training after high school. No other profession, for men or for women, has this low standard of professional quali- fications. Until a much higher level of training is demanded and obtained, the status.of the profes- sion will remain, and remain de- servedly. low. I am fully aware of the present exigency with refer- ence to the supply of teachers and sympathize with the steps that have to be taken as J. temporary measure. But only temporarily. The training of the minor-one of the most difficult and important arts--needs able, well disciplined minds to guide and direct. It is necemary that the public a.pprecl- ate this fact, and plan according-

What has been said is not to imply that no teachers take part in community activities which have no diir t relationship topro-

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few people who are willing togive their time to do it.

What of the rewarck that this profession offers? And nrst, what of the financial rewards? They are low as compared with the profes- sions of law and medicine; high as compared with that of the Christian mlnlstr.v. T '- have done much through their own or- ganizations to impress on the public mind and on school trustees the need for a better financial sta- tus, and much has been achieved.

to bedone. Itiathecauthata youngr teecha with the bare min- imum of training is, as a rule. earning all that she is worth as an initial salary, and more than she could hve earned in any other field" with similar training. It it not the case. however, that well trained teachers earn as much as they should. and progressive school boards are more and more inclined to put weight on ability and au- perior training in establishing the higher grade: of ulary level. Even under the best oondtitiotna this is not a. lucrative undertaking. and no one who enters the ranks of

the teachers is under any delusion in the matter.

But there are compensations. The great thrill that oomes to A touch- er. and that more than counter- balancu many hours of tiredness and despondency, is when a for- mer pupil oomes to tell him that what he, the teacher, said and was had meant muoh to him, his pupil. There is no greater" satis- faction than an unbidden tribute from some one who years ago had been a small boy or girl in his classroom. Life becomes worth while. One knows that for the one who is impelled to speak there are many who are too shy to express gratitude. The teacher's job is to mould the minds and the hearts at a. time when such moulding is possible, What is . lished can never fully be know'n. Even under the moat adverse conditions some seed is planted.

You remember Arthur Clanghis' lines: "For while the tired waves vainly

breaking

Seem here no painful inch to gain Far back through creeks and in-

lets making flooding in the

That is the kind of faith thatl we need in our profession. There? are many times when it wouldl seem that no painful inch lat gained. But one cannot be fully' aware of the momentum that may be gathering force out of sight and beyond our ken. Nature's procmaes are slow, very slow. It is the slow. steady, unspeotacular force that counts. so it is with all of us. for we are part of nature. There- is an ebb andflow in human pro- gress, but over the long ages the movement is upward.

So it will continue to be if we continue in our tasks with courage ind hope. We can ell achieve so .much if we give our abilities full play. To us has been entrusted the charge of helping you.rng,peop1e to use their nbillties to the ut- most. May I, as one who is older and moving towards the end of

femioinal cl ties. Many do. and their numbens increase. It is sig- nificant that the leaders of two political parties in the House of Commons were teachers, as were several prominent members. What has been said is rather to point the way to greater public service. and thereby to enhance status. There is so much to be done for the community and for the wider the claims of humanity. There are so

well as the members of the Home and School Asoclation.

Ed uoa tlon '

If people started Worrying about education there is no (telling what mlcht happen. They might even decide that the educating of the youniz people is really an lm. Dartant Job, perhaps the most im- portant there is. and that

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................... POET-LAWYER.

Louis I-ionore Fr;-chette, French- Canadlan poet who died in 1908, was also a. lawyer and member of Parliament.

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