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“. Hopelessly out_of date

Horse-and-huggy attitudes
0 space-age education needs

peace, has warned that the out of taxes and the people pay niz i
B DON CU RRIE scientific revolution: cannot be the taxes. This is a chess Pick with rare ag cee coe
y completed without quality edu- used by big business and the aiid
cation for the masses of the senior governments to avoid In 1963 only 18.2 percent of
people. paying their fair share. Winnipeg’s educational costs

HERE ARE : : : j
eopl Itiply so fast that school cos

people who will toba multiply Facing space-age needs, the The senior governments have einen oy an ps
f ni

a us the educational sys- curriculum changes made today senior governments can only the power to t li
that worked in Mani- will have to be revised in three l ax monopolies as_ of . :
itn orked in Mani ; : of these costs sh
Me in 1890 is good enough for years. The pace of technological offer horse-and-buggy solutions. _ well as Lasing: the people. Pre- the ravines The phsia 2 |
th Cell it isn’t! The fact is change is so rapid that many of Despite rising school costs in ae ten. idea of a fair di- ernment can afford to iis tee }
bins ur educational system is the students who will graduate yyanitoba of 500 percent in 20 , : ae - tax responsibilities the costs of elementary educa-
ing ow. out of date and fail- from trade schools will find ne years, despite the fact that seaal SN ON ae ae tion without imposing any new
t0 m i i a : :

eet the challenge of a have been trained for the jobs of ayes to pay the cost of educa- en only $400,000 oie a taxes. Big’ business and the

New .
of ater nological age—the age yesterday. tion are equivalent to $91 per pi5 mining concern senior governments have the
Th hey “This fact was illustrated by a Year for every man, woman and 2 : money.
© Manitoba School Act was United Electrical Workers Union child, and the figure is rising, The Civic Election Commit- This money, 1s tie prone ee

’dopteq : d . qj atite
the fact that education tee’s idea of what big busi
Were. 2 1890 when there (UE) study of the effects of despite the fac! & business taxes taken out of
“ -doll Se sh! ‘ of the backs and
is a multi-million-dollar propo- should be asked to do is to al- pockets of the working people.

_ Only 38,000 pupils i ict

Dub ? pupils in our automation. It predicts that Da 5 : ;

a School system. Today 1985 one-third of the total out- sition (Manitoba spent $100 mil- low the CPR to build a big {It is time to put a halt

are 210,000. put of the whole economy will ion on it last year), the provin- freight terminal at Selkirk and squandering ai the Fi to the

ia 1890 Manitoba was still come from automated plants Cial government and the Liberal- Keewatin Streets and then to on so-called aes Se eam

Sneer country. Its main indus- nd this means that 1,550,000 Tory clique on Metro, city coun- turn around and .make the — spend this money Ce
y. ; cil and the school board stub- homeowners on Selkirk pay for jze our e ee phonies |

em to : |

t
Was agri workers will be forced out of in-
ate griculture. Today we Z bornly insist it is the home- th : }
dustry. What is to become of ornly ‘insist it 1s e home-. the services used by the termi-
a owner, the taxes on property nal. meet the needs of a new age. |

Vith a ee ean th eople? Education is part
i i ese e?

litge eo ily MUGS 25 ee that should continue to foot the Premier Roblin has been .
E ep. ms in 1890. : bill for education. ia — whimpering that we can’t have
i efontai i : i ;
dtector 3 ee : sencoullae M a een This system for paying for orm : or ae and eat it too. Roblin
a pees Association, says that aooue education is as outdated as the Big business is 0 f the UP = date ietoar ere |
Provingj 1 T Ford. NG DUNE eee ional Sxalea .
hig vCal government econo- These are new times. The day Mode i main beneficiaries of the public Prepaid national health plan,

© sur
Of ae calls for 50 percent when education was for a select All informed educational au- educational system and one of nd a guaranteed old-age pen-
haye eee labor force tO elite who were either very rich thorities, even the Michener its weakest supporters. Big i0n, all at the same time. The
197 pleted high school by or very brilliant has long pass- Commission, admit that. prop-. business must assume a bigger. federal government has to de-

: :

shoulg that some 65 percent ed. This is the age of mass edu- .erty Owners are unable to pay’ share of the tax load. cide on “priorities.”

Mining ave special vocational cation in a highly-industrialized for the risig costs. of educa- Th ; : . . i

: ees tion, Who is to pay them? How a iG Cae of een is Yes, we need priorities in this |

Pprese should, taxes be raised for edu- ow it is collected, but country and in our i |
Manitoncnt Only 15 percent of = Qyr youth cannot take its Cation? also how it is spent. It is a cri- those priorities vai
minal waste that a billion and ple’s needs before profits; the

—itoba? =
tigh so 4 paper oe have place in industry, science and
Steg iining and a small he arts unless the educational The old argument used by big a half dollars is spent annually interests of the people before

4 Ntage : : : =
ing ~“*8€ have special train- stem is radically changed. business and the senior govern- on armaments. It is not hard to the interests of big business;
ments is that it doesn’t matter imagine what could be done to education, health and easiae
how it is done, it all has to come relieve the taxpayer and-moder- before armaments

Dr W J. D. Bernal, an eminent scien-
ithine.) 2, Lorimer, head of tis and world-known fighter for
tm, P&8's Public School Sys-
hag nratsed that “Manitoba
Bhizing gone half way in or-
Schoo) Bien, adequate public

ropout problem

S

Msp.) Trustee Andrew Rob-
‘lame, Peaking about the
high ed Tate or dropouts froia
COnyen cool, asked the recent
Schoo tion of the Canadian
What Trustees Association:
Uh Ind of a school system
“hildre have that drives these

N away from education?”

h
Dubie Challenge faced by our
i cha School system is this: can
the eee fast enough to meet
Wirements of a new age?

Pai TOnkite, chairman of the

Ommit Regional Employment

fg, “Wttee, said recently: “In a

ogg Years time anyone who

Scho, Not have at least a high

Uhen €ducation will be on the
Ployable list.”

r

hq a Saunderson, president

Versie Cé-chancellor of the Uni-
ne Manitoba, goes fur-

Wily Predicts that “not only

Shoay Have to keep students in

Wire longer, but they will re-

~

the. ‘8° mor i
ir e education than “
Neesto ae Can our school system change fast enough to meet the needs of a new age?” i ‘urri i
leat; rs did.’ ernments and big business face up to their responsibilities for the costs. Came has cigs ah ee ee ne Comes
ion problems in Mani- as a candidate for Winnipeg School Board in Oct. 28 elections. noted: Dy Sie tse eee See

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