Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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AVAIJENIIC PRIZEGIYING GUEST OF HOXOUR HPR R. .IliWlTT. ESQ., MA., I'h.I3.. I5 l'r1'm'ipuI QV' Bislmp'5 l'n1:'f'rs1'!y

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Staff HEADMASTER Robert A. Speirs, KLA.. CEdinburgh and Columbia Lniversitiesl SENIOR MASTER F. Gordon Phillips, BLA.. COxford Lniversityj SENIOR MISTRESS OF jL'NIOR SCHOOL lMrs.l Christian I. Markland lLiverpool Universityj ASSISTANT STAFF E. Cveohfrey Davies, B.A., C. Harold Mayer fllanchester Cniversityl l1lcGill University! lllmej Anne Gyger XYalter D. Mingie, B.Sc.. Le Brevet Superieur lParisJ lMcGill Universityl james E. Iversen, BLA., Edgar C. Moodey CMcC1ill Cniversityj lLondon Universityl lllissl Helen D. Locke Lester R. Perkins Intermediate Teaching Diploma lNew Hampshire University lprovlnce of Quebec, OIrs.J Dorothy M. Tester LIB RARIAN lNIrs.j Dorothy XYarren OFFICE STAFF lXIrs.J Constance E. Howis Olissl jean McPherson.

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jfnretnurh Preachers and teachers often apologize for preaching and teaching, but they go on doing it just the same. So it is with speakers at school closings and with writers of forewords to school magazines: they may acknowledge that the giving of advice to the young is a temptation they ought to resist, but they do not try very hard to escape it. .-Xs a teacher, then, I may be pardoned if I join the majority, indulge a pedagogue's weakness and leave one thought about school that comes to me as I recall my visit to you last year. It seems to me that we go to school for three good reasons,-apart of course from the compelling reason that we have to attend whether we want to or not. Wie go to learn the basic facts and skills of reading. writing and arithmetic ttogether with some modern variations of these three R'sl without which we cannot hope to make any kind of success of ourselves. Next we learn how to work and play with our fellow students so that we may become good citizens of our country. Finally, we go to school because an education makes life far more interesting: we can learn both the know-how and the know-why of the fascinating world of things and ideas we live in, we can develop enquiring tninds, and we can begin to think and discriminate for ourselves. not biindly accepting as true or good anything we read or are told. Now, my point is that school, college and university can be so much more profitable and enjoyable if we understand that all our school subjects and activ- ities, in one way or another, have this common purpose-the attainment of a three-fold education of the kind I have suggested. It is my wish that, as you look back to your years at Selwyn House, you remember with enjoyment the good times you had, and realize with satisfaction that you have started along the road to knowledge, understanding and wisdom, -the right, true end of education. ARTHUR R. JEWITT.