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The third responsibility is to make every effort, honestly and objectively, not only to understand the nature and problems of our society but to comprehend the differences in culture, religion and social values that separate other societies and ours. What Dr. Kirk is talking about has as much to do with culture as it does with education, and to acquire gulture one does not have to attend a seat of learning. All it gquires is a sense of discrimination in your reading and thinking; it is an individual effort. The fourth responsibility is the most important one, and I shall deal with it at some length next week. Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge N1R 5W1, providing effectiveness training for business and industry. The second responsibility is less easy to define and still less easy to acquire. If formal, higher education is to be meaningful to people, it must give them, somewhere, somehow, a sense of values and the courage with which to defend them. Such a sense of values derives from an ability to discriminate, not only between right and wrong, but between what is cheap and shoddy and that which has integirty and beauty. To put the matter another way, educated people should have a wellâ€"develâ€" oped "good taste®" which they use as a yardstick in making their moral, social and aesthetic judgments. Thought processes are linked intimately with expression. Clarity of thought and clarity of expression go hand in hand. In these days of mass education, so many of our students are permitted to go through high school, and beyond, without undergoing the discipline of expression that an educated person shouhig have. College graduates who have not learned to use their mother tongue with grace, precision and clarity simply do not deserve a diploma or degree. They are not educated people, no matter how great the quantity of information they have stored away. They are lazy in their speech. When asked to describe something, they may say, "Oh, I guess it was kind of bluish." They are saying in reality that they have been unobservant or that they have not been trained to distinguish anything more than the primary colours. The sloppiness of their speech merely reflects the sloppiness of their thought and observation. Students should learn that precision is not pedantry. They must learn not to be impressed by the cult of vulgarity in speech as it is practiced by writers for television, and the advertiseâ€" ments that fill the pages of our mass media, with their pseudoâ€" folksy barbarities of language. If they are to justify their education and the time and money spent on it, they ought to be proudly aware of the vast riches of the English language and strive, as best they can, to make use of this heritage, which is theirs for the effort. No single investment of students‘ time will pay greater dividends in their future lives. ®© Buy Direct from the Manufacturer! ®© Save up to $800 on Some Models © 41 Models Available, Some Clearouts © Family Size Spas $2399 ® Whiripools from $599 SELOGL OOA OLOqC OA To C [ooe me dUS CC peFSON, Even though the times have greatly changed since then, what he said is still relevant. I‘ll touch on them briefly for you to see what he considered a true education is all about: The first responsibility of the educated person is to endeavour to achieve clarity and precision in all spoken and written communications. In April 1964, Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of Columbia University, delivered a convocation address in which he listed and defined four responsibilities of the educated person. Euen tlnieb dha iL oo oau e Soram wl C Whirlpool & Spa Sale Responsibilities of the educated Factory SuperStore On the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, the group meets at Seagram Museum‘s Frowde Lounge, to hear guest speakers discuss many aspects of living and coping with cancer. "The facilitators are also available for people to talk to after the session," Fournier says. "They can point people to other organizations that can help them out, depending on what their needs are and requests are. And the volunteers are all people who have had some experience with cancer." When "Living With Cancer" was introduced by the Cancer Society two years ago, it was intended to be a small, intimate selfâ€"help support group Trained volunteers facilitate the sessions, encourâ€" aging discussion and exchange among participants. But because the number of participants became so great, Living with Cancer has evolved to become an information session program, says Roseâ€"Anne Fourâ€" nier, the Cancer Society‘s chairperson of patient services. Living with cancer is not easy, but it is possible â€" very possible. 1 And a program offered by the local office of the Canadian Cancer Society helps those with cancer and their families do just that. Living with cancer focus of Cancer Society program Steven Kuhn, a 13â€"yearâ€"old student at MacGreâ€" Fournier stresses that the Living With Cancer is i db nlemed®. sinlinnt mt midccs d 2 c e c t 1+ 5 fourâ€"week commitment and each having an average of over 80 per cent. "I think they were probably looking for someone nmmemese 4 TA S "I was surprised when they phoned to tell me," he says. "It‘ll be new to me but I think it will be exciting." Only 24 Grade 7 and Grade 8 students were chosen out of 800 applicants for the position, each ;eceiving special permission to miss school for the Kuhn, a student at MacGregor Public School, was recently selected to work as a page during the fall term in Queen‘s Park. But when he heard about the opportunity on his school announcements, Kuhn never imagined that some day he would be on his way to the legislature. Michelle Lahn Chronicle Staff Thirteenâ€"yearâ€"old Steven Kuhn will probe learn more about the Ontario Legislature in f w?’ekf than most people will know in a lifetime 39,000 Sq. Fi. Factory & SuperStore will probably four All Living With Cancer sessions begin at 730 p.m. All are welcome to attend. No registration is required. Upcoming sessions include: Oct. 23. speaker Dr Mary Kay Brown, a psychology professor at WLLU. and a brain cancer survivor discusses "I Have Cancer, Is There Hope"; Nov. 13, Dr. Terry Dean. a pharmacist and pain control specialist at Kitchen erâ€"Waterloo Hospital, will discuss pain control: Nov 27, meditation and relaxation techniques will be discussed; Dec. 14, Dee Preikchas, and registered nurse and partâ€"time clown, discusses humor therapy in "Laughter and Healing". The group breaks for the holiday season, and begins meeting again in January. Living With Cancer holds its second session of the season Oct. 9, and focuses on the topic of naturo pathic therapy and healing the "whole person" i ons ooo Ccms o m oi ioh "It‘s not therapeutic, but there‘s a lot of support there," she says. "I‘ve talked to a lot of people who are leery of groups because they fear they‘ll have to talk or spill their guts, cry, and say how awful life is when they really don‘t feel that way. But the fact that there‘s a speaker. and we focus on a certain topic at each session, makes a big difference. in no way the type of group where participants "complain and whine" â€" it‘s everything but that. job We don‘t have any trial time," says Kuhn. "It‘s just the first day that we do it is the actual thing. So we really won‘t know exactly what we‘re doing until it‘s time to do it." His mother, Mary, shares some of that anxiety. She‘ia concerned about sending Steven to Toronto to indimath. Psnl se id i Aboi ies an Each page attended a oneâ€"day training session. but Kuhn admits he is still nervous because he has never visited Queen‘s Park. His first day at the Ontario Legislature will also be his first day on the ixk Kuhn isn‘t even worried about all the little things that the pages have to remember â€" things like remembering to hand a bill to an MPP so the politician won‘t have to turn the paper over to read it, or learning the difference between a motion, a petition, a report and a bill. What worries Kuhn is ths minimal training the pages have received work, but she admits that the experience he will gain far outweighs any doubts she may have. "I think it‘s an excellent opportunity for him to expand his scope," she says. ‘"They discuss politics at school, but no one can say how things are done. A minimum number of children get the opportunity." uwSzeven, who would like to ;larogram computers in future, agrees that this will be a good experience for him. He also believes it will help him in a job search some day. friendly and mature enough to do the job and that‘s able to skip school," says Kuhn. And he. has absolutely no problem with the idea of missi school â€"â€" although he won‘t be escaping hm altogether because each page will be tutored in matl}: and French a few hours for two days of the week. When the pages aren‘t being tutored, their days are filled with delivering bills to politicians, assuring that all paper work is in the proper hands, and performing any required chamber duties. Working from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. is a long day for a 13â€"yearâ€"old, but Kuhn isn‘t too concerned â€" he says he can handle it. House «: Cedar 210 Regina St. N., Wateriloo 885â€"1711 e Cedar Saunas e Cedar Lumber e Cedar Gazebos e Cedar Decks : it