Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - Echoes Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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105 Taba 'fcbocs Ytules for Visitors in fllnbustrial ffsrts ICC anb ITD 1 s . Can remain only Q5 hours PER tk:j day. Q. Only ink can be put on the YV.-XLLtingl . 3. Hot or cold TODD tyl th1'ee times a day. -L. To save dishwashing Tt'RNtbulll plates over as they are reversible. 5. If you happen to take ill. put your NECK out the window. 6. No STARUB boarders. 7. Do not scratch your name on the furniture with PINfnsl. S. Do not put your LEGON the table. 9. Supply your own towels. its OKAY with us. 10. Bleals will be taxed at the rate of Q5 llc-lHLLtsl tausl on the dollar. 11. You will have to wait TlLLfcockl Tuesday for pay for the room today. W0t'I.DN'T IT BE FVNNY IF: l. STAFNTON did his homework? Q. NECK forgot his gum? 3. IIOORE kept his mouth shut? -l. Tl'RNBl'I.L forgot his glasses? 5. PERKS had his hair curled? 6. I..-XZVRE knew his History? T. TILLCOCK could do YVoodworking? S. STBICKLANID knew llathematics? 9. QYINN was six feet tall? Miss Bailey to Perks: What kind of tune is given by a broken instrument? Perks: .X rotten tune. Miss Bailey: lYell, what kind of tune does a broken harp give? Perks: Yyorse still. On Tffomeworlx 011. yes! lve have our own little wars. One morning on 1112 l.egon's desk. appeared the following. clipped from a morning newspaper bv that ageless and elusive personality. Anonymous : noni: womi HIT nv rsmrisu IIOFSE London. Feb, IQ- KVPJ -The British House of Commons today by resolution strongly condemned home work for school children after a Laborite member. speaking on the Education Bill. said: I asked my oldest boy about this only this morn- ing and he said: 'The House of Commons should consider slavery at home instead of in Ethiopiahn llr. Legon. feeling a slight on his con- scientious efforts and being quite ready to proelium committereu with the nefarious malconteut. fred hair. you knowl was ever on the watch for a dart to hurl at the secretive wretch. From Saturday .Yigfllfu he gleaned this: TH1-1 ins.xPPE.mING HOXIE lve have known for a long time that the home was ceasing to be any good for most of the purposes for which it used to be considered im- portant and useful. Yve are born in hospitals. we are educated in schools. our social life is carried on in hotels and clubs. we die in hospitals again. and we are buried from undertakers' establishments. Thus are scattered most of the activities which former- ly made the home important and kept it busy. The latest blow to that time-honoured institution has been delive1'ed by the British Parliament. which has decided that the home is not the proper place for doing home- work. 'Wvhenever practicable. pre- paration on school premises should be substituted for homework, says the resolution which was adopted by the British legislators recently. Their decision has been greeted with three cheers bv every school boy and every school girl in all parts of the British Empire: but there seems to us to be some misunderstanding about it all. fContinued on page 1081

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108 'Elie 'Echoes Nothing is said about reducing the hours of the school day now devoted to actual teaching. If any prepara- tion is to be done at all. therefore. it will evidently have to be in time additional to the time already spent in the school building. Is it intended that the children shall come to school earlier. or that tl1ey shali stay there longer. or that they shall come back again in the evening? If the legisla- tors had had the courage to say something about this in their resolu- tion. instead of saying nothing about anything except the abolition of homework. they would have evoked far less enthusiasm among the vot- ers of the future. But it is the habit of legislators always to be very de- finite about the things that will make them popular 1325 a month. for examplel and completely indefinite or completely silent about anything which will have the opposite effect. We do not believe that the school children of today are seriously over- worked. either in Great Britain or in fanada. We do not believe that they can acquire anything even re- sembling an education without a reasonable amount of preparation. and we do not see why the taxpay- ers should have to pay a large body of public servants not merely to teach and examine the children dur- ing their instruction hours. but also to invigilate them during their pre- paration period. However. we realize that the average modern home. with three bridge tables in the front par- lor. a radio in the back parlor. a motor car in tl1e garage, and two moving picture houses just around the corner. is a place in which the preparing of lessons is becoming in- creasingly difHcult. Besides. there is the distressing fact that children themselves do not like preparation. They no longer object to school it- self: modern methods have made of it a place of agreeable entertainment rather than of difficult work. But preparation consists of actually learn- ing things, or writing things. or fig- uring things. It cannot be done with- out work. and the children do not like it. They will not like it any bet- ter when it is carried on at the school premises. So the next step will presubably be to abolish it alto- gether. This barb should be sufficient to con- vince the youthful Bolshevist of the error of his ways. An hour and a half to two hours of homework serves to make Sat- u1'days and holidays that much more de- lightful. Therefore. O ye who deem your- selves sufferers under a grevious burden. take heed. After a few years in college. a number of your company will. as teach- ers. be railed at as dispensers of home- work. How sweet will be your revenge then! Ye also may conceive such out- rageous articles as that quoted at the be- ginning of this treatise. and may. too. quash the offending student- studentn did I say?-perish the thought!-even as has the doughty III: Iiegon in afore- mentioned fashion. H. D.-xvmsox. STUDENTS rr rr rr Inquire all about our new CHAIN SUIT PLAN. Something IICNY and l different. You may obtain a made-to-measure suit for only 50c a week. I COME IN AND SEE l ISADORE I. BLACK l 1 ROONI lub BXRRIE BLDG. PHONE 3294 312 GEORGE ST. T -1. . . .i , . -.,-...-,--.........5.