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GeorgetownActon Wednesday Dec 81962 RE5 We must regain our trust in leaders institutions great theme Ihls week so will chew around at a few shorter items One of the recent events that did not exactly send a surge pride or or trust through me was Pierre addresses to the nation They were depressing not for their content which was as stale as yesterdays news but for their lack of it Where was the old wit the charming shrug the coy smile the candy floss philosophy All missing Nothing left but an aging and unwanted politician desper ately trying to hang on I found It deeply ironic that the man perhaps least trusted in all of Canada should be pleading with us for trust He was barking up a hollow tree The aver age Canadian has lost his old trust In government he banks the economists This wide distrust has filtered down into our national being until we find It difficult to trust anyone outside our immediate family And even there you never know when your wife is going to open your mall or go through your pockets was right of course but I wish the Idea had come from someone else We must regain that trust our leaders our institutions and each other or the way ahead is one of darkness and despair But do you really trust the socalled skilled worker who does a job for you Do you trust the car salesman Do you trust the Post Office Do you trust the Depart of Revenue with its nifty cold blooded computers its warnings its speed in snatching your money and its tardiness in returning it without inter- much of it was sinking in when I looked out over the heads of the teachers The bald white heads of the majority I help thinking of my first P D day more than twenty years ago Then the majority of teachers was young dedicated keen militant innova tive In the group was middleaged conservative perhaps just as dedicated but tired hanging on a bit disillusioned How about you doctor Your lawyer Your dentist Your husband Your wife Your children Do I really trust my grandson when he sends a letter to me through his mum that says love you very very much and I you dont die Tor a long long time After all it is getting close to Christmas Do you even trust yourself That about to home as we can get and I certainly dont always trust myself Enough Bui answer honestly Went to a Professional Development day for teachers recently Sat near the back of the auditorium while an attrac tive intelligent woman who had raised seven kids and holds a high post in educational circles tried to inspire us She did her best but I wondered how At the afternoon session went to a seminar about gifted children It was en lightening and rather frightening Many many parents believe their children are gifted when they are mcrley bright By the time the poor little devils are put through I and dozens of other criteria it turns out that there are dam few truly gifted children and that teaching them Is a whole new balLgame At least I am pleased that governments are finally going to pay some attention to the gifted child and nurture their crea tivity Therein lies the future of the world because these young people are analytical critical questioning not con tent to swallow the same old flabby ideas and concepts that society tries to stuff them with For years all the money has been poured Into helping slow learners a worthy and necessary cause while the truly gifted were allowed to dull their minds become bored or frustrated and frequently drop out of the scene Its a welcome turnaround but its been a long lime coming and the previous waste of these people has been appalling I can think of dozens of kids former students whose innate was so thwarted frustrated or suppressed by the school system and a hypocritical society that they literally dropped out of both and became failures in the eyes of the world at least Its too late for my own chilfcn but I hope my and yours and your children to come will benefit from this latest awakening from a long sleep of our educational leaders This column is 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