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Not encugh of us appreciate the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be truly educated, not so that we can impress others, but so we can have so much fun with our minds. Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute, PO. Box 642, Cambridge, NIR 5W1, providing effectiveness training for business and industry. Of course, if you have studied hard to pursue the vocation of your choice, that can be all. absorbing and bring you pleasure. But that will leave you rather lop-sided in your interests and there is so much more to life than just earning your living. It's as it you furnished only one floor of your house! - V, -_____ _- _..--.._ w...” .........5 " “vans. She refers instead, to your own selective cultural education that is tailored to your personal interests; one in which you are not striving for any qualiNation or degree, but are motivated solely by the desire to expand your knowledge along lines of interest that stimulate your mind. Tut's where the pleasure is to be found. When she says that the purely personal side of education is not emphasized enough, she is not referring to the Conventional education of school and college, of curricula and examinations, so much’of which is directed toward earning a living. CL- ___ ---- :,,.,,J A I . . _ _ How about that? l . ' the world within, a place where we like to go." Where we should never be bored. Where the furniture should be cause for contemplation, wonder, questioning and creative i.magining, "My point is onl} that JiijiaGG'itTind should, change the furniture, we ought to throw away the old furniture cautiously. It may turn out te be irreplaceable." ' "Robert Louis Stevenson said that a man ought to be able to spend two or three hours waiting for a train at a little country station, when he was all alone, with nothing to read, and not be bored for a moment. "What is the education that can do this? What is the furniture which makes, the only place belonging absolutely to each one of us, the world within, a place where we like to go? I wish I could answer that question. I wish I could produce a perfect decorator's design warranted to make any interior lovely and interesting and stimulating; but, even if I could, sooner or later we would certainly try different designs. 7 0 Buy Direct from the Manufacturer! q Save up to $800 on Some Models . 41 Models Available, Some Clearouts 0 Family Size Spas $2399 0 Whirlpools from $599 a". _..- no...“ a over it, but he thought to; Finally when one of my students said, “Profe with your own mind" l "The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed. Once, long ago, I was talking with Professor Basil Gildersleeve, of Johns Hopkins University, the greatest Greek scholar our country has produced. He was an old man and had been honored everywhere, in Europe as well as America. "He was just back from a celebration held for him in Oxford. I asked him what compliment received in his long life had pleased him the most. The question amnnad him “A La ._.._L,J I have been reading a fascinating little book, The Ever-pres. ent Past, by the late Edith Hamilton, one of the best writers of her time, and I came upon something that you might like to think about. "When I read educational articles," she wrote, "it often seems to me that the purely personal side of education is not emphasized enough - the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person, than not. Whirlpool d) Spa Sale Education should be a pleasure Factory SuperStore . - --_. _ - .u nun mug It": mm The question amused him and he laughed hr Ma D;....|I.. L- __ta a ' .. A Mary McLaughlin of the Mutual Group says the It proud to work for I company with such commitment to the community. -___ -_.._.._.u as: ”Lea. Mary McLaughlin, Mutual Group"s vice-president of public affairs, announced Friday the insurance firm will contribute close to $90,000 to the Kitchener. Waterloo Sexual Assault Support Centre, the Catholic Family Counselling Centre and the John Howard Society. The sexGiGiauit support cen- tre will receive $25,000 for the Thanks to donations made by Waterloo'a Mutual Group, three social agencies which deal with the issue of sexual assault will be stale to offer expanded services. Deborah Grand." Cyanide Stan 39,0005. a Fwd: SuporStom Last year, the Mutual Group donated close to $100,000 to the -- ........, unvaunW, uuu the John Howard Society will receive $28,000 to offer an addi. tional therapy group for men who have committed acts of domestic violence. The donations, McLaughlin says. are part of an ongoing commitment to enhance avails» bility and quality counselling and treatment services for victims of violence in the area. start-up costs of a new art therapy pro) , the counselling centre ,'l,'il'th2e, $36,700 to expand existing group therapy programs for victims of family violence, and AL A I - I . I _ _ MID-um House oi Cedar 21o Regina St. N., Waterloo 885-1711 q Cedar Saunas . Cedar Lumber . Cedar Gazebos 0 Cedar Decks "However, when we Introduced (the funding, m 1990, we felt that we couldn't Just say, ‘Herc's some money'. and then after a year 58), 'Well that's It' We want some contmuence here We've worked very closely With these groups over the year and we've been interested 1n their programs/ McLaughlin say: "We felt the best thing to do this year was tn be conswtent," Because the KW Sexual As sault Support Centre was ehg1ble for government fundmg this year it was decided that donations by the Mutual Group would be used Examining their findmgs, The Mutual Group deemed u could best contribute by financmily asslslmg exnstmg agennes tio expand sen-Ices It was not, at the tune, an automatic assumpuor. that funding would commue (m an annual basis. "What we knew was tlus was not a problem that we could address - we are not the profes sionals - we are not the ones who can go out there and help people," McLaughlin says "What we wanted to know was what the major problems m the Community are. which needs are being addneaed. and wluch needs are ntill there. We found that there an very good agencies. and were lurprined to know how well-run the social agencies are m thos community, But the problem waan't a matter of how fine their work was - there were waning lists - there were women who were victims of violence who had to wait 51:; months to get tttto group therapy th McLaughlm was asked by the rirrn's chairman. Jack Master man. to char a commutee which would Pook at the summon and determine ways Mutual Group could contribute to the solution it focused the thutkmg of some people 111 the company to what they could possibly do tn address this terrible problem ofvlolence ' "It really 9.1;)”; “(gm the terrible tragedy m Montreal; McLaughl1n_ says. "l really think .. . 1,.-." w...“ “w The Mutual Group's commn ment to conunued support of the three agenuea stems from a retro tion to 1989's Montreal massacre in wluch 14 female umversm students were gunned down same three argumzanons The funds were used to help estabhsh the assault support centre, which had been strugglmg to set up an omee, and hire a pan-tune staff member The other two agencies used the funds to expand semees rtt,i,e5irt,g, prograxl: waning has (Commuod on page Mo;