Collingwood District Collegiate Institute - Gleaner Yearbook (Collingwood, Ontario Canada)

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WHIBLBCHOOI. A take-of! on the hyperactivity fncn-culturalj of the average modern high school. If you boys and girls like a fairy story, I will tell you the story of a school called Whirlschool. In Whirlschool there were superintelligent pupils. They could dance without colliding: they could kick balls high and far, they could sit for long periods of time without letting their minds be disturbed, they could do many things. This was all because they were superintelligent. They had a little trouble passing exams at Whirlschool, but this didn't worry them too much because thq could do so many other things and were so well adjusted. But there was one chap who got worried at not passing exams and he decided to get to the bottom of the matter. So he sat down and thought and thought and let his mind get very disturbed. Finally from this disturbance was born an idea. This chap whom I am going to call Pinker IHis real name was Hank, but at Whirlschool nobody ever called anything by its right name, - - this Pinker came to the conclusion that the reason so my people were not passing exams was that they were simply not interested in the stuff the exams were about. So Pinker started a movement. The whole school lent him an ear. He spoke and said: ' Gisengals! CThis was the fonnula they used in addressing teen-age people at Whlrlschooll I here stand in front of you to tell you that I'm here to sq that I have thought and thougat and have had an idea. This is it: you gisengals don't do so hot on exams. QHe didn't'mean hot, but this is what you call a saying.J Well Why? Simply because the stuff we're examined on don't interest us. KThere were loud shouts of Yoo, yoc' which showed approval. Boo, boo was said for di sapproval.J So here's ny plan: you make me president and I'll have stuff for us to be examined on that we're interested in. KAt this point in his speech there were five minutes of yoo-yooing, which the superintelli- gent pupils took to mean he was elected president. It was all so plain.J Pinks: immediately got a cozmnlttee of four others who felt as he did and wouldn't back-talk him too much, because when you get too much superlntelligent back-talk, you don't get much dons and it takes too long. First they asked what a human bean is and decided he was a bow and a mind and as his body was obviously much bigger and more important than his mind, thq thought this must be educated first. Sc they spent six hours on body- education, and two on mind-education. Ons lobbyist asked what they were going to do for the spirit, but as they could not agree whether he meant school spirit, ghost spirit, alcohol spirit or mean spirit, they let that matter drop - - I mean the matter of the spirit Next problem was how to put in the six hours Pl'-ing. They said do what's interesting, that is games, and everybocb will be keen and keenness in important. So they played games for six hours, three ln the a.m. and 5 in the p.m. and two hours for mind-education. As they found this 8-hour day too long, they decided to shorten it, so they asked where they could cut, and in answer cut one hour off the mini-education time. One bright star mde the observation that since games train mimi as well as body, games were about all they needed, so why not out the one hour for mind-education? In respect for him they cut the mind-education to 50 minutes, five of which were for announcements about the games and body education dances. The remaining 25 minutes was quite a problan to them. They decided to pick out five subjects which they thougmt were really important and give them five minutes a day, EACH. KTh1s is to be said magnan1mously.J This generous allotment of time made the students all keen about their work and d1dn't disturb their minds too much. The five subjects chosen were: 1. automobile driving, 2. social adjustment, 3. personality development, 4. proper dress, 5. management. They used movies for all these subjects and had . Even in automobile driving they had movies of automobiles driving around. They meant to have real cars, but the penny-pinching board of education wouldn't a. supply each student with a car, which was obviously necessary or b. remove the telephone posts in the district. Instead of teachers they had discussions. As there was no time in class, thq did this on their way to lunch. Everybody was having a wonderful time, I mean education, when suddenly tin bcmbshsll hit. There was a fellow up the street who believed in free enterprise, so he started up a school in competition with lhirlschool. He decided to train the mind, figuring that lf people walked around and did some honest work in the fresh air, occasionally, they would have enougn bodily training. He was a dangerous fellow who wanted to train the minds of the young and make them critical of society, always dissatisfied and looking for improve- ments. He felt that picking up and discussing basic ideas was THE thing in education. So he had classes arranged in such things as mathematics, science, languages, history, and even English. He opened the school doors. Not msrq came. The competition was too keen from the old-fashioned lhirlschool. But after a year people, for some systerious reason, started ending their children to HIS school where mind-education was given the spotlight.

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