IN THIRTY plus years as an
editor, a parent, and a
teacher, I have been ‘inun-
dated (though not quite
drowned) by several waves of
self-styled “reform” of our
educational system, especi-
ally that of Ontario,

Each wave has washed
away some of the basic val-
ues in our system and left

from which teachers and stu-
dents eventually emerge,

asping for a breath of clean *

Most of the “massive” re-
forms in our system are bor-
rowed from the U.S., after
thirty or forty years of test-

ing there have proven them .

dubious, if not worthless.
We have borrowed from

behind a heap of detritus, the pragmatist, John Dewey,

BIRDMAN

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aa ‘sent to hundreds of bird lovers in every walk of

: The ¥

cell, a
space to house ‘his $00 birds. He was also provided with
laboratory equipment and extra electrical outlets.
: Stroud’s fame spread when he was successful in
Stroud’s if the Diseases of Birds

en,

iment, he was transfe:

was now 52. He had spent years in Prison
ni entered Alcatraz from a co

eae inown, was the end of the

. 6 ft. . to a

itooped, round shoulder cyeh eft. Without his birds and
juipment he. was agath placed in isolation.

on Sunday; 3 May.1, vite en escape attempt at

lcatraz led to one of the most dramatic incidents

ver to occur ata U.S. federal: prison, Five des-
arm several

e only weapons in one of the c

ks.
uring the counts ott the of calls sn ae main —

through
ieir mat-

tresses and cowered in comers a . At
the height or the action St ad exposed himself to
bullets to gain the atten’ lon of one of the

sided.
‘Three ‘of the ringleaders were killed during the
two were shot-dead in
He ot * death,

ant
aber. It In all, seven

‘his part in the
Througou the forties Stroud, no
writinga of! thet Federal Pris:
deterioration of hisheall

- AP] est for a parete- in
ref

» 25, 1959 Strut | was advised that he was
si Sr ferred from Aloatraz 19 the Federal Prison

aon ‘Nov, 21, 1963, Robert Stroud went to sleep and
“never woke up. The Birdman of Alcatraz was. dead.
iHs was 73 years old,

~ ROBERT STROUD (right), accompanied by a deputy

marshall, attends a court hearing in 1959.

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who
on An ieee bat ea to put
them into mass production,

an endearing but not neces-.

sarily noble. trait./of ' our
cousins below the border.

We have tried the’ ridicu-
lous, “See, Jane. See Spot
run. Spot, see Jane vom!
sort of thing which com-
pletely ignores the child's de-
mand for heroes and witches
and shining maidens, and
things that g0° bump ‘in the.
night. =}

We have tried’ teaching ”

the whole child”, a process in
which the teacher becomes
father/mother, uncle/aunt,

grandfather/grandma, ‘psy-
chiatrist, buddy, confidant, _

and football to kick around,

teacher “burn-out

We have tried a’system in
which the children choose
from a sort of Pandora’s box
what subjects they would like
to take, and giving them a
credit for each subject .to
which they are “exposed”,

whether or not Abey, have '

learmed anything in is.
That was a bit of a disas-

ter. Kids, like adults, chose ;

the things that ‘were’ ‘‘fui
that sere “‘easy"’, that didn’
have: exams, - that . allowed ‘

them ‘to express their in-
dividuatity."*
New courses, “were intro-

“duced :with. the’ rapidity of

rabbits breeding.'A kid who

» was confident that he would

bea gréat
everything’from: basket-
weaving to bicd-watching be-
catise they were fun,:'. :

And suddenly, at about the
age of seventeen, he/she |
covered that it was necessary
to know some scl;

surgeon (ora novelist, ora
- playwriter, or. an ‘engineer,

etc,).

:- There “are. very few jobs
open ‘in: basket-weaving ‘and
bird-watching or. World Re-
ligions or another couple of
dozen I could name, but
won't,” for fear of being

beaten to death by 2 tizzy of -
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The universities, those sac-
rosanct. institutions,-. where

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tion.
thar” standards, in a des:
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Bodies. They ‘competed for
students with all the grace of».

merchanis: in‘ an’ Armenian

Another swing of the pen:
dulum.. Parents. discovered
that their: kids: knew. some-

“thing about a Jot of things,

but ‘not much’ about any-
thing. They got mad.

against spending
Jots of money to teach stupid
kdds, or emotionally iisturb-

jevelter. Out of oneside of its | Maile’

‘mouth it suggests ne edt

* tion be compre

doning of Grade 13; eg out

of the other side, that-educa-.*

mae tion bé
‘The universities, alittle red *;

in the face, suddenly and vir-

tuously” announced - that -

many high school graduates
‘were illiterate, which was a

lot of crap. They were the -

people who’ decided that a

serond Janguage was not nec-.

sary. They were the people
who accepted ‘students witha

mark of 50 in English, which . .
x id dacally uh mae 2

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press
k ‘at the same time? Only a:

commission “on ' education .
could even suggest such: a

‘There will be lots of dioney

for *‘Special Education’’. in:
‘the new plan. There will be

less * money: for excellence,
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