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w _ A New Look ... ... At Education New Broom for Home & School Vigorous Future Predicted _ To help in this, a new Family Membership fee of $1. per year was voted in at the annual meetâ€" ing by the members. No longer would parents have additional Federation membership fees to pay if they beloriged to more than one association, nor pay an affiliation fee to council, this in future would be an all inclusive fee. Distribution of this $1. would be as follows, 39¢ to Ontario Fedâ€" eration for administration and operation expenses, 41c to local ‘They are, he says, "not mere measurements. They may, in themselves, be stimulants; they may be the spur to better perâ€" formance; they may even be the direct cause of increased interâ€" est in a particular field of Yet, he says, "it is quite posâ€" sible that the examinations proâ€" gess is today carried to excess; that the continuous impact of hour, midyear, and final course examinations serves merely to interrupt the scholariy developâ€" for the Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations. During 1962 it was realized by the Federation that it was over organized, had all kinds of deadâ€" wood and a most important facâ€" tor, was lacking in close comâ€" munication with the local assoâ€" ciation, the grass roots of the orâ€" ganization. Therefore, the past yearthas been a year of reorganâ€" ization to create a new, progresâ€" sive association and one that would have a‘ more vigorous apâ€" proach to its future policies. areas for expenses and training of local association personne} and 20c to Canadian Federation to enable this Canadianâ€"wide orâ€" ganization to carry on its excelâ€" lent work. During 1963 a number of local Home and School‘ Associations Its prime purpose is "to stiâ€" mulate reflection among the faâ€" eulty concerning the nature and potentialities of examinations in college," Professor Bramson said, paraphrasing Nathan M. Pusey, president of Harvard, Paul H. Buck, a historian and the Carl H. Pforzheimer univerâ€" sity professor, views examinaâ€" tions as "an invaluable continuâ€" ing index to a changing curricuâ€" _ The essays proved to be as different in concept as in form. As a result of talks with sevâ€" eral facuity members, the comâ€" mittee decided a booklet of esâ€" says on the subject might be useful. says, "the Committee on Educaâ€" tional Policy devoted portions of several meetings to a discussion on examinations. "The discussion was occasionâ€" ed by the semiâ€"annual review of requests from members of the Harvard faculty to substitute some other form of examination tor the threeâ€"hour final required each term by university rule. Such requests long have been largely a matter of routine . . . "This particular Year, howâ€" ever, the discussions broadened to include more general issues regarding examinations." ‘ In the introduction to the 135â€" page booklet, assistant professor of bocial relations Leon Bramâ€" son explains the background of this Harvard effort. tioning is revéaled in a booklet says. of 20 essays by faculty members| ~"Competition, is a1s0, vastly who deal specifically with the|too rife. The race begins in high traditional threeâ€"hour long Harâ€" school, and is won, so the stuâ€" vard exams. Some essays defend|gent thinks, by grades. This unâ€" them as important teaching/forunafe emphasis pervades the tools, others say they may RAMâ€"|college where it generates hysâ€" per students‘ scholarly develOPâ€"\teria and threatens to %lude ment. _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ |__ |thinking." 00 1906 The Queensway at Kipling Marvard w has dil-|ncnt of the intellectually curiâ€" elosed that it is among the inâ€" student of teday." creasing number of colleges seriâ€" touches on the question of ously questioning the value grades, "Scholarly achieventent final examinations, is mow, for many reasons, an ~ ‘The form‘of Harvard‘s quesâ€"| established . desideratum," â€" he Choice of 15 cars carefully maintained by a large Cana dian public service com Come And ‘ Get Em l / "Late in the fall of 1961," he WHWILE THEY LAST â€" s695 Queensway Volkswagen by. Joy McAllister : Ni Professors Question Exams (Deluxe Models) CL. 9â€"7656 progressive year o Federation of ool Associations. was realized by -â€"M,M’,'l““â€"?og. 10 FULL PRICE al usirleration will realize that working the orâ€"|for their own children only, does he past\not give‘ them the sati?action eorganâ€"|that they had when the? were progresâ€"|concerned with all children. Beâ€" ne that|cause of this, and the ne wvigorâ€" rous apâ€"|ous outlook of this organization es. lit is expected that membership Family will be increased in 1964. er year) As of December 31st implemenâ€" al meet.|tation of the new structure is ) longer 95% complete and so 1964 should iditional start to be a period of achieveâ€" fees to ment for the Ontario Federation o more of Home and School Associations. pay an Its future goals and the hope that this in some of these may be achieved nclusive in 1964 are, a 12â€"year Senior L. would | Matriculation curriculum, driver rio Fedâ€"|education for 16â€"19 year olds, on and Suidance in all schools, payment to local of Family Allowances for the training 16â€"18 age group still attending ine} and school and a Federal Office of tinn +al Education. year| have disbanded from the Ontario n of|Federation, mainly because of a ions.| dictatorial or indifferent execuâ€" i by tive, who declined to discuss and over inform their membership of the leadâ€"\true facts of the new structure. facâ€"|It is felt that members that have comâ€"| isolated themselves from the Fedâ€" assoâ€"|eration will realize that working e orâ€"|for their own children only, does past| not give‘ them the sat?ction ganâ€"|that they had when theÂ¥ were gresâ€"\concerned with all children. Beâ€" that| cause of this, and the ne wvigorâ€" s apâ€" ous outlook of this organization lit is expected that membership mily will be increased in 1964. year| _ As of December 31st implemenâ€" neet. | tation of the new structure is nger| 95% complete and so 1964 should ional|start to be a period of achieveâ€" « +a‘ment for the Ontario Federation | David Reisman, Henry Ford II lProressor of ‘Social Sciences, says it offers students "a real world challenge." Yet he feels every student should have the lopportunity of studying in an |ungraded course because it alâ€" {lows him "to become more venâ€" turesome" and to feel he is studying because of his own inâ€" terest in the subject. Thomas C. Shelling, professor of economics, favors the "grob- lemâ€"solving" approach, whereby a careful question, might require half an hour of careful thought, but then could be answered tersely. ; T He explains: "If the prow is one the student could solveWwithâ€" out going through an adequate reasoning process â€" at | least without extraordinary luckâ€"the display of reasoning is superfluâ€" ous. If we know he had to go through it to get where he got, it may be traversing the ineviâ€" table to pursue his reasoning through his handwriting." This may very well be the ultimate in â€"thought developâ€" ment: Just think of the trees that could be saved! Professor Sydney J. Freedberg would require in the fine arts courses a paper rather than an examination of students who are not specializing in art. James Haar, assistant profesâ€" sor of the music department would similarly assign research papers in place of examination. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole The Ontario Federation of Home and ° School Associations believes that the changing world of today offers a tremendous challenge to parents and teachers to continue to work together to help children acquire the knowâ€" ledge, understanding and symâ€" pn&y mecessary for harmonious livirg in the vast new world of tomorrow. truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content wtih fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full {ruition. . â€" But if the threeâ€"hour examinaâ€" tion were to be abolished, what should replace it? Two professors suggest essays, another proposes problemâ€"solvâ€" Several other professors conâ€" sider the threeâ€" hour examinaâ€" tion plays a cveative role in stuâ€" dents‘ intellectual development: Franklin Ford, history professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, believes it to be "a teaching tool in its own right." _ f woORDs OF THE WISE â€" William Osler 1 the Ontario because of a erent execuâ€" o discuss and ership of the . __"â€" â€" will nold_any hilg!h cost _ REGULAR | #" Mockey Gloves [J {eoin eauipment ‘Hl "“' \339.50 51 9.95 'I'.‘C')iibA;s f .Yo\"’ budgr *) NOW 10" o 12" PAIR _ <C § is â€" present s t an s»s oJz t Mess & / Skates _ NJ [ yeâ€"" \ \ | J ues 0\ A#000 > SKATE OWn mm 9 [C yess= | P oes) P:o ‘ L1 Price_ / A S SEâ€"» STVLED h ‘ A Wide Range of Styles . Goallgfll’ads ‘ WHILE 1/ c ’ THEY PRICE 37.50 fa sigts & <‘" 2 # A maim{l " noskey Sloves \ $ as is 2. 4° sTcntion _/ | %% )WFovrâ€"s@f t on mowe y " o PP ~=:>~::" U _ SKATERS bniniony,,, . 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