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"My best teachers were passionate about their subject matter and sought approaches that directly involved students in examining, discussing, and applying the material."
Bruce A. Lesh



                          The Jesuit Fathers receive young savages.
Jesuits, 21 Decembre 1632, Élie de Salail, 366 Anniversaires Canadiens, James McIsaac, 1949








Byte magazine, American Cancer Society,  Nov 1975, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons




Notice to school teachers for examinations, Gananoque, 23 June 1862, Archives of Ontario C 233-1-4-2246




Merit for Diligence, Toronto Reference Library ca.1870.MeritDiligence.vs




Merit for Good Conduct, Toronto Reference Library ca.1870MeritAlbert.vs




Merit for Punctuality, Toronto Reference Library ca.1870.MeritPunctuality.vs







Harper's Weekly, New York, 26 February 1870




Harper's Weekly, New York, 27 Sept 1873





Varsity, Toronto, 29 November 1955

With visage haggard and worn,
With eyes deep-sunken and red,
A child sat cramming scholastic bosh
Who ought to have been in his bed.

No sleep for the urchin to-night–
He fears the “bad mark” of the Ma’am–
He’ll toss on his bed till ’tis light
And then to his books and his cram!

No laughter of rollicking youth
But an air of old age that’s a sham–
A trembling, cringing, prison-house air,
The result of the system of cram!

Cram, cram, cram,
Algebra, Euclid and Roots,
Cram, cram, cram,
Cram it down into his boots!

Cram! cram! cram!
A school-full of galley slave mutes;
Cram, cram, cram,
Botany, Spelling and Roots!

O, when will they mix common sense
With their boasted common school plan,
And learn that a boy was not meant for a guy–
But a wide-awake, every-day man?

[Mazeppas: Students are the unwilling riders of the wild horse.]





















Statue of Egerton Ryerson in front of the Education Department Building in Toronto, 1890, Archives of Ontario F 1125-1-0-0-182




1898 LAC National Council of Women Ottawa a028033











































Art School, Emily Carr, BC Archives PDP06152, 1901




Alonzo Ryan, Political Caricature in Canada, 1904




Alonzo Ryan, Political Caricature in Canada, 1904















Art Young, Judge's Library, New York, 1907




Judge, New York, 9 October 1909




The Canadian Courier, Toronto, 3 July 1909





Varsity, Toronto, 12 October 1909





Woman's Journal, Boston, 4 March 1911













Life, New York, 26 September 1912






Judge's Library, New York, January 1909





Metropolitan, New York, July 1913




Robinson, New York Tribune, reproduced in Cartoons Magazine, Chicago,  January 1914







                           "Self-education is the only education possible."
Harper's Weekly, New York, 18 April 1914





A. B. Walker, Life, New York, 16 July 1914









Judge, New York, 1 May 1915



Puck, New York, 16 September 1916









Sewing class, George Agnew Reid, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1917









Life, New York, 6 May 1920






St. Louis Republic, reprinted in Cartoons magazine, October 1920















The Liberator, New York, May 1923





Art Young, The Nation, New York, 4 July 1923





Nation's Business, Washington, D.C., May 1937




The Young Worker, Chicago, July 1923



The Young Worker, Chicago, August 1923



 




Judge, New York, 26 January 1926






























The Woman's Journal, New York, September 1930


























The Young Worker, Chicago, September 1923




 







 




Nation's Business, Washington, D.C., June 1940












 



 



  



 














 











The Manitoban, Winnipeg, 9 January 1951







 










 








Varsity, Toronto, 25 November 1954







 


 
  




The Fisherman, Vancouver, 13 August 1957




AFL-CIO, Washington, 31 August 1957



 







 



 



 



 
 

 
    



  
 



 
   
 


 

 


 

 
 
 

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"We (Cree) learned by doing and by listening and watching. . . Uou didn't have chairs and desks, blackboards and teachers. You had a tree stump, stories and a grandparent. The way you learned was different, but you learned. You learned things just as well . . .because if you didn't learn, you wouldn't survive."
                                                                                           David A. Robertson













 

































 



The Manitoban, Winnipeg, 9 November, 1974



  







 




McGill Daily, Montreal, 11 March 1975




 



















 










 




Varsity, Toronto, 1 August 1985