: Two friends and I, in our 70s and 80s, recently recalled favourite teachers from our different schools.
Independently, we each chose our shop teacher from grades 7 and 8. And these choices were made by an accountant, a lawyer and an educator with a doctorate in English literature.Progressive educator John Dewey recommended student projects containing their own internal, rather than teacher-imposed, discipline. Industrial arts and home economics provide ample opportunity for such activities.
As essay-writer Rod McNair points out, use a tool incorrectly and one will be injured. Likewise, sew a dress with little care and one won’t be able to wear it. Just as important, these subjects, along with others often regarded as frills, may be what makes school days bearable to many youngsters – what makes them willing to endure grammar lessons and math equations they might not find interesting or relevant.At 78, I too proudly count among my most prized accomplishments and possessions a bedside lamp, which I made of wood in Grade 7 shop class in Montreal more than 65 years ago.
Through that class, I learned skills and gained self-confidence that I have used regularly in so many facets of everyday life. Thanks to essay-writer Rod McNair for bringing back warm memories.Letters to the Editor should be exclusive to The Globe and Mail. Include your name, address and daytime phone number. Try to keep letters to fewer than 150 words. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.
When one leads a life of want and gratuitous satisfaction one should accept the responsibility of death without the burden of some foreign care as nobody should be forced to care for others just to earn money. There is something fundamentally wrong with this progressive ideology.
It is fundamentally wrong, arguably immoral, to journalistically encourage the polemic that conflates the scarcity and imperfections of seniors homes with the present and entirely proper restrictions on arranging your own death.
Assisted dying, euphemistically labelled MAID, cannot become the prime focus of the medical industry. To do so is to allow the aging Baby Boomer demographic to continue its skewing of the allocation of public resources.
As a terrified senior, I would rather die 18 months sooner, with compassionate end-of-life care in a hospital near my loved ones, than languish in one of the most inhumane, underfunded institutions created in modern times. 😮🤐😯 fordnation liberal_party ltcjustice DrVivianS