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BACK TO

SCHOOL

By J. A. CHARTERS

Back to school! These three
words will launch vast torrents
of editorial comment, journalist-
ic humour, parental sighs of re-
lief, youthful groans more for
Style’s sake than any real reason
and full page outbreaks of ad-
vertising all over the continent.
If however you manage to get
past all this printer’s dust, plus
the front page headlines, the
comics and the sports section you
may notice that not only are Jim-
my and Mary and Johnny start-
ing a new term at school but so
tare mother and dad. It is adult
education time again.

The idea of adult education has
a.very’ new-boy-in-class’ look
about it yet — it was only start-
ed in 1935 in Canada — and has
therefore been tacitly ignored by
the would be humoristts and com-
mentators in favour of the more
familiar territory of the junior
back to school movement. The
hoary notion that we go to school
from the age of six to our teens to
get an education and then go out
as educated people to earn a liv-
ing, is wavering on it’s tottering
legs and cannot fall and die too
soon to receive it’s long over due
burial. It is probably something
we picked up during the Indust-
rial Revolution a couple hundred
years ago and haven’t had enough
sense to put down until now.

The term continuing education
is being .favoured to-day over

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that of adult education and a mo-
ment’s thought and reflection
will show that the term
makes good sense. Observe a
very small baby. It’s hands and
eyes are every where, learning.
Try. to answer all the questions
that small children can ask. They
absorb the knowledge of the busi-
ness of living like a sponge ab-
sorbs water and learn more in
the first six years than at any
similar time in their lives.

.In the years at school which
follow, they continue learning,

.acquiring a broadened social out-

look, a certain amount of factual
information and what is more
important, the knowledge and
skills needed to acquire more
knowledge. But this is not an ed-
ucation in itself, but only the
means to, or at best the begin-
ing of an education.

The great tragedy of education
to-day is our general attitude to-
ward it. We have the erronious
idea that education means going
to school for ten or twelve years
and that the possession of a dip-
loma or degree makes one an ed-
ucated person. One might as well
say that the possession of a kit
of carpenters’ tools made one a
earpenter. The carpenter's kit of
tools is a key which must be used
to gain skill in the trade. The

‘training that is given in school

is a key to intelligent living in a
complex and rapidly changing
world and it is a personal and
national tragedy that so many
people mistake the means for the
end.

Fortunately more and more
people are realizing that educa-
tion is a life long process and

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what pretty tough, dull
or useless when they were in
public or high school is now with

‘greater breadth of outlook and

maturity both interesting and
useful. They realize that in a
world filled with conflicting phil-
osophies, rapidly changing val-
ues, propaganda and pressure
groups, continuing education is a
necessity.

Vancouver has had “continuing
education” classes for years.
More recently they have come tu
the larger interior towns. This
year, Castlegar has it's own adult
night classes. Thus it takes its

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BAPTISMS

The three-week old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Scheupfer of
Robson, received the names of
Gerald Bruce in a Baptism cere-
mony in St. Rita’s Church, Cas-
tlegar, on Sunday.

Mr. J. Leamy and Miss Lor-
raine Scheupfer, both of Robson
were the godparents and Rev.
Father Barnes officiated.

Of interest to relatives in the
Kootenays and Ontario was the
Baptism of Margaret, Jean, in-
fant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. McGauley in St. Rita’s
Church last Sunday. .

Mrs. Patrick McKerral, recent-
ly married to the baby's uncle,
was. the god-mother while P.
McKerral was chosen as god-
father. Mrs. R. Whitaker was
proxy for the absent god-mother.

After the ceremony, the guests
along with Father Barnes, were
treated to a family-style dinner
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
McGauley.

place with those progressive com-
munities who believe in the adult
Philosophy of continuing educa-
tion and that ‘back to school’ is
not the privilege of the young
but the personal and national
obligation of all.

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IN CHURCH

St. Rita’s Church
Phone 4121 .
Rev. Joseph B. Barnes, P.P.
Thirteenth ‘Sunday after Pente-
cost.

the Aztec

frompeie in

Marilyn Delores Reddick of Agin-
sourt, Ont. She won the title at
Burlington, Ont, and after pocke!-
ng $1,000 prize money will go to
the Miss America

Sunday Masses — 8:30 ‘and } aaa in Atlantic city in Sep-

o’clock.
Confessions Saturday evening at

Daily Mass — 8:00 a
Novena Devotions — ier :45 Sun-
day morning.

St. Joseph’s Chapel
Rev. Jos. B. Barnes, P-P.
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

| Sunday Mass — 10 o'clock.

Gospel Hour
Twin Rivers Hall
Every Sunday Breaking of
Bread 10 a.m.
Sunday Schoo] — 11:30 a.m.
Gospel Hour — 7:30 p.m.

COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE
Undenominational
Gospel Sing-Song and Service

Sundays 7:30 p.m.
Legion Hall Castlegar

Bible Study and Prayer Meeting
Thursdays 7:45 p.m in the

home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wood-
row, Columbia Ave.

Sunday School, Sundays 10 a.m.
at Coronation Hall. Classes:for
children and young people.

A cordial welcome is éxtended
to all

The United Church of
Canada

Minister: Rev. L. Clinton John-
ston.
Castlegar — 10:30 a.m. Sunday
School.
(7:15 Hymn Sing). °
7:30 p.m. — Service of Worship.
Kinnaird — 11:15 a.m. 2nd and
4th Sundays.
Robson — 11:00 a.m. Ist and 3rd
Sundays.

Gospel Tabernacle
Cc. J. Sahlstrom, Pastor
Sunday School — 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship — 11:00 a.m.
Open Air and Testimonies at
1:30 and 2:30 p.m.
‘By Grace are Ye Saved Through
Faith.”

Lutheran Services
Services to be held in Anglican
Church every second and fourth
Sunday at 3 p.m.

Presbyterian Church

Services in the Church Every
* Sunday at 11:15 a.m.

A. S. MacDonald — Student Min ;

A. S. MacDonald
Student-Minister

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Outdoor Birthday Pariy
For Barbara Killough

An outdoor social evening fea-
turing a weiner roast, games, a
sing-song and an ample variety
of refreshments was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kil-
lough in honor of their daughter
Barbara's fifteenth birthday.

Guesfs present were: Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Killough and son Jamie;
Mrs. F. J. McLeod, Pasty, Dick
and Beth; Miss June Sherbiko;
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Auld and
sons Robbie and John of Vancou-
ver; Rev. E. H. Wallace; Bob
Sahlstrom; Ritchie Mann; Dave
Malenka; Dennis Read; and Mr.
and Mrs. A. E. Hesketh.

Roasted weiners, pop, candy,
pop-corn, marshamllows, etc. pro-
vided refreshment fare for all,
with a rousing sing-song adding

a musical touch to the evening.

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