Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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E. R. Ill IN PRAISE OF SENflOR INSTRUCTORS The culmination of our Northern programme is in the final selection of the nine boys who will take on the responsibility of instructing at our Northern campus. An additional 5 to 8 boys are also selected to teach the pre-North schedule at the main campus. These students come from a group who have taken ER I and II in the expectation of being able to assist at our Northern Campus. Not only are these boys responsible for carrying out a rigorous and demanding schedule in the north for a total period of five weeks but must also meet their academic and athletic obligations on the Main Campus. In doing so the challenge is immense and the contribution to the life of the College great. The instructor is the first up in the morning with the Director and is usually the last to be in bed after a long day. When away Tripping from the base camp, which is most of the time, the instructor is totally responsible for the welfare, safety and leadership of his patrol. The instructors are given the outline of what they must complete in the short, two, two-week sessions; it is then their responsibility to develop their own method of how it will be done and, at the same time, integrate all three patrols ' activities suc- cessfully. Considering that the majority of the in- structors are, on the average, 17.6 years of age and the boys they are leading are at the difficult age of 15.6, the above task is far from easy. It is an all-time consuming and exhausting activity. Needless to say, the ultimate benefit to these in- structors is great. The Lord Bishop of Peterborough, in a debate in the British House of Lords stated; A child grows into a man when he learns and is en- couraged to accept the consequences of his own -v ,-jfrn,- -iH . ' 1 ' Z

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aid. The course includes one week of practical work at the northern campus. Without a doubt, the instructors that are chosen from the E.R.II course will always be competent and rehable in their duties at the northern campus. Rob Cartotto and Dave Green I i«2v«n iii|i

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actions. Put another way, he must grow in courage to make mistakes, and unUke so many pohticians, he must not turn those mistakes into principles Out of freedom to accept volimtarily the best, can come the crowning of human dignity and enjoyment. I beUeve that if people can be helped to understand the nature of their own thinking and to be more aware of their power to influence the course of their own lives, they will develop a greater respect for them- selves. The greater respect they develop for them- selves and the more astute their awareness of their own thinking processes, the more respect and the more insight they ' ll develop into the way of other people. I firmly believe these factors are ultimately related to effective leadership and motivation and growth of the individual toward his goal. As a result, he will be more effective both for himself and for the institution in which he is growrlng and developing. Mr. NobJe (Director - N.C.J