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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES COLLEGIATE AND VOCATIONAL INSTITUTE SOUVENIR EDITION--MAY 7, 1980 Grounding in Technical Trades is Offered to Ambitious Boys Two-Fold Purpose Is Behind Vocational Classes For Boys Who Follow Courses C. C. ASHCROFT Shop Director, Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute HE aim of these courses muy he defined in many ways, though fun damentally the different definitions will be found to have a common basis, namely, that of a preparation period for "complete living" In the great industrial division of the world's activities, The word "complete" Is used to convey the Iden that this preparation Is not restricted to the working or gainful side of the in dividual's life In some Industrial voeation but it should embrace his life as a mem ber of a social group, as u neighbour, us a citizen, The word technical tends to throw the emphasis on the purely voen tional or trade training side of the cour sen but it should be clearly understood that the technieal school courses do not overlook the academic and so-called cul tural subjects of a good education Nor Is the aim of the technical subjects solely that of trade training, Trade train ing, the building up of the skills of the finished craftsman must be done on the job, and it Is economically impossible to perfect this in the school, Two Fold Purpose The purpose of these shop subjects in two fold, to provide an. industrial en vironment In which the boy may find himself, may determine his natural in clinations and aptitudes, may develop his mentality, his ability to think his way through a problem, Secondly these shop subjects present the student with an op portunity of learning the principles and practice, "the why and the how" of some selected vocation; they encourage the de velopment in a natural setting of habits and dispositions such as neatness, indus try, perseverence, accuracy, respect for todls and machinery, safety, and the like, hubits which will be of great value to him in industry, Attractive Features Perhaps one of the most attractive © features of the technical course Is found in the realization that the boy Is dealing with concrete things, with things with which he is cognizant in his out of school life.. He sees about him the results of the activities of industry, and in the shops he participates in many of the processes und operations, he uses the tools and machinery of the trades, His academic work, his English, his Mathematics, his Science, are directly re luted to and very necessary for a success ful mastery of the shop work and the boy sees these subjects in a new and natural setting, They now mean sone- thing definite to him and under such bony Pho he Is encouraged to exert the real effort which is necessary for the successful command of worth while knowledges, Many Occupations There are many different 'occupations listed in a classification of gainful voca- tions and to attempt in one institute to offer courses in all would he well nigh impossible even if it were desirable, It is very questionable as to just how fine a specialization should be undertaken in a school course and the present attitude of the technical school is to endeavour to offer well balanced courses in the funda. mental trades of those industries which are found in the community that the pars ticular school serves, The present pro- vision 'at the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute will permit of cours sex in Machine Shop Practice, Heat Treating, Oxy-Acetylene Welding, Sheet Metal Work, Motor Mechanics, Wood Working, Carpentry, Building Construe- tion rchitectural Drafting, Machine Dralting, and 'Eletrical Construction and Theory, The General Aim The general aim of the course is to meet the need of hoys who are lookin, forward to employment in industria occupations and who will eventually be- come skilled workers, craftsmen, fore. men, superintendents, executives, technical experts, ete, As has been stated above, the purpose of the courses is to give the student a thorough inpighe into the prin. ciples and practice, "the why and the how," of his selected vocation, but it does not aim to turn out a finished workman, Industry will agree that the finished workman's skill is built up by repetition on the job, and, economically, this repeti- tion is outside the scope of the school, But, the boy educated in the industrial atmosphere of a Technical school, which reproduces as closely as possible the best conditions of trade and industry, will re. quire a minimum of readjustment in adapting himself to the Wo from working in school to working in industry, The Range of Work A student In our school will get a good education In academic Mibjests and citi zenship as well an a specialized education in and for his chosen vocation, About half his time in each year of the course, will be devoted to such subjects as Eng lish, History, Geography, ii Science, Mathematics, ete, and about half to those subjects that are particularly necessary for a thorough education for Industrial pursuits, such as Drafting, Feonomies, Shop Problems and Manage ment and the various kinds of Shop Work A student entering the Oshawa Col leglute and Voeational Institute and wish Ing - an education for an industrial voention, without the advantages of un University training, will enroll in the first year of the Technical course, He will find this year to be of un genéral or "try out" nature which will enable him to find himself and will assist him in intelligently choosing a vocation for which he has aptitude, During this year he will devote part of his time to work in each of the shops, From the background of these experiences and after consultation with the Shop Instructors, Master Crafts men in their subjects, he will be better equipped to choose wisely the vocation he wishes to work towards, The Second Year The second year student will still devote half his time to the academic subjects whereas his work in the shops will be limited to those shops directly related to hin selected voeation, the Machine Drafts man will work in the Machine Shop as well an the Drafting Room, the Motor Mechanie will study Mac hine Shop Prac tice, Electricity, and Machine Drafting and similarly for the other courses, The Final Year The third year student while still spend ing hall his time on academic work will devote more of his shop time to his chosen specialty, The present courses are designed on a three year basis, an experience has shown thut except in the cases of schools in the larger centres of population, there is little demand for a longer course, When and if, there is such a demand in Oshawa our organization is sufficiently flexible to per mit of the introduction of advanced work in any of the courses O.C. & V.L is Proud One of the activities of which Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute is justly proud is the work of its Cadet Corps, This organization of young eiti vens of Canada is the centre of the en thusinsm of the boy students during the training period, In the cadet instructor, Mr, Barley, the boys have one who had a thorough understanding of the value of cadet training, with its advantages of bow Mb I discipline and body building exercise, Practically every boy in the school is a member of the cadet corps, which, by reason of the fact that the Board of Education has taken a lively interest in it, iv a splendidly equipped body, and one which, ori its annual inspec tion parades, makes a fine showing when lined up before the District Cadet Ine spector, It is a thrilling sight to see these hundreds of boys perform the vari ous manoeuvres expected of them when on parade, and it is a credit to the school, and to Mr, Barley, that the corps is in- variably warmly complimented by the ins specting officer on its efficiency, The many photographs in this souvenie edition of The Times are the work of Campbell's Studio, to which The Times expresses thanks for its co-operation, When Jack Comrie became janitor of the Oshawa Collegiate, fifty tons of coal was sufficient for heating purposes each ear, Today, it takes 500 tons, When he started there were only five teachers and 132 pupils, as compared with the re- cord of nearly one thousand pupils and a correspondingly large staff of teachers at the present time, The Oshawa Collegiate and Voeational . Institute is now equipped to provide for practically every type of course that ean he desired by its students, Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational In. stitute had splendid academic traditions behind it, for its students have an excel- lent record of winning scholarships, Education Becoming Costly Item on Municipal Budget DUCATION is becoming, if it has E n't already become, the most costly item on the "expenditures" side of the municipal budget, This is the price of democracy ; for if people are to govern themselves they must be educated and trained for the job, Democracy requires un high dvd of citizenship, It re quires ns many good citizens us it can get; und "good eltizens" mean men and women who ure not only capable of supporting themselves but also possessed of some thing contributory to the common. good Recognizing the necessity of good citizen ship, the most progressive people have made education public duty and charge; and it is becoming increasingly expensive and burdensome, The hope of decreas Ing these expenditures is slight But the opportunities for inereasing the return for the money expended are numerous To-dny there in / rr of leaving the whole problem of training the young to the schools, This is flattering to the public school system of education; hut when the home and the. influence of par ental supervision, guidance, and stimula tion are not being worked at their full power the community Is not making the most of its opportunities, Because people are paying indirectly through taxation for the education of the young Is no reason why the whole responsibility for the fin ished product should be thrown on the school, There must rather be the clos est co-operation between the: home and the school, between parents and tenchers; and that co-operation can only come through the parents understanding the problems of present day education, Fven i superficial view will reveal the start ling fact that it is quite different from the days of the legendary "little red school house," With the object of pro moting this better understanding and having a closer éo-operation, it ix pro posed to discuss from time to time some feature of 20th century education not in un controversial spirit hut rather with the object of arousing interést and stimulate sane thinking on one of the most im portant and costly of our democratic in stitutions, E. A. LOVELL Chairman, Finance Committee of Board of Education for 1930 THANKS FOR ASSISTANCE The Oshawa Times is deeply grateful to all those who have assisted in the com pilation of this special issue, and particu larly to the principal and staff of the Oshawa Colleginte and Voeational Insti tute, and to the members of the hoard of education who have contributed special articles, Without that splendid co-opera- tion, this souvenir edition would hardly have heen possible, A, tional Institute, Province, 19 VICTORIA STREET CONGRATULATIONS! Hearty congratulations are extended to Oshawa Board of Education and to citizens generally on the completion of the new Collegiate and Voca- Few finer or better Squipped in- stitutions of this nature are to be founc FINE MECHANICS' TOOLS The attention of visitors to the opening is directed to the fine mechanics' tools in the machine shop of the vocational school Supplied by RICE LEWIS & SON, Limited (Established 1847) in the . TORONTO McDougall Engine Lathes TECHNICAL SCHOOL TYPE and BROWN & SHARPE SURFACE GRINDER for the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute Were Supplied by The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co. Limited 26 WEST I RONT STREET TORONTO