Harold Cox

The quality of
education Is definite-
ly better. There Is a
lot more diversifica-
tlon in education now
than ever before.
There are more
branches in terms of
trying to define quali-

ty.

 ... more
discipline
wouldn’t
hurt.’’

Mike Rossiter

I think the quality
of education has im-
proved since | went to
school but | feel that
the system under
which students are
educated lacks

’ discipline.

~The Terrace Review asked:

ls the quality of
education getting better
or worse? ©

Fran Lindstrom

| think it’s getting
worse In some fields
which involve the
basics such as
history, English and

. spelling. However,

students do tend to
learn more about the
sciences these days.
| feel alot of money Is

spent on non-
essentials such as
sports activities

which may develop
the person but are
not specifically orien-
tated at education.

Pastor Mike Bergman
| think the quality
of education is im-

; _ Proving. Teachers are

better trained in in-
structional methoda-
ology and the cur-
riculum is much more
comprehensive. Op-
portunities are
greater than ever
before.

‘... some -
teachers
are not
doing a
‘proper
jo b.”’

%

Daniel Solowoniuk

Worse. The reason
is that some teachers
are not doing a pro-
per job. There are a
lot of good teachers,
but others are just In-
terested In money
and politics. They
should consider
freezing the salaries
and hire more
teachers so that
classes would be
smaller. Then the
students would learn
more.

Mary Waywitka
1 would think that

the educational
system could pro-
bably stand Im-
provements and a bit
more discipline
wouldn't hurt.

we have been

To the editor,

In my opinion

mankind has grown too.
big for his britches. By
that, I mean his impacts

are no longer contained
within petty nationalistic
boundaries nor is what

trinated to think by
world governments any
longer acceptable. Our
enemies are ourselves,
no-one else.

We are taught that
murder is wrong except
when in the national in-
terest, when each one of
us may be called by our
governments to become
a murderer. This leads to
an unacceptable situa-
tion internationally, Kill-
ing people doesn’t help
them.

We are taught that in

the interests of national

security, that it is essen-
tial that we manufacture
nuclear weapons, the
support infrastructure of
which now and for the
next half million years,
will threaten life on earth

indoc- .

“Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 21, 1986 5

| Time for a change

Potter

with disease and greatly
increased mutation rates
and annihilation via
nuclear war.

We tend to be taught
that for the good of the
economy, the environ-
ment must be sacrificed.
In the worship of that
faith, we encourage
over-grazing, turning
laterite soils to concrete,
killing lakes, farmlands
and forests via acid rain
and toxic rain and pollu-
tion, and pass on the true
costs to future genera-
tions.

We have internalized
that poisoned environ-
ment such that those
poisons account, in my
opinion, for 80 to 90 per-
cent of all cancer deaths
amongst humanity. We
are told that that is the
essential price of our
technological lifestyle.
Tell that to someone who

Northern continued from page I

 autonomy.’’

With regard to a new
federal program design-
ed to aid municipalities
in upgrading infrastruc-
ture such as water and
sewerage systems, Rit-
chie stated that the B.C.
government would not
encourage increased
federal contributions to
revenue sharing and of-

fered the rather curious
rationale that such con-
tributions would either
increase the federal
deficit or displace fund-
ing from social pro-
grams. The presentation
came to an inconclusive
end with the showing of
a film produced by the
provincial government
on the subject of
municipal planning.

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Alfixed Permanently

Researchers at the UCLA
School of Dentistry are using an
effective technique invented bya
Swedish scientist to permanently
implant artificial teeth in per-
sons who areunabdle to wear den-
tures,

The dental implant method,
called osseointegration, allows
people with special problems to
regain the benefits of havingteeth.

Osseointegration refers to the
attachment of living bone to
metal. The technique involves
surgically implanting miniscule,
pure litanium screws into the
jawbone while the palient is under
localanesthesia.

Letter

Only by a change of heart
will peace be restored

To the editor,

The question is, ‘‘Are
our Natives asking for
apartheid in Canada and
are they being conned by
the communists?”

@ The Blacks were not
forced to relocate in
homelands.

@ The Blacks (except
the Zulu’s who lived
there) relocated
themselves, migrating
from more northern
parts of South Africa in
order to find employ-
ment and a higher stan-
dard of living. These
Blacks, I believe, now
have the highest stan-
dard of living of any
Black country in Africa.
® They are not denied
work and they do not
live in a desert. On TV
one can see all the
greenery around the
houses. The media shows
often only some slums,
which are, in my opi-
nion, created by the peo-
ple themselves, not’ by
the government. The
Blacks are employed in
mines and factories with
wages higher than
anywhere else in Africa.
That is one reason why
we should not boycott
African products. It will
hurt the Blacks accor-
ding to the Zulu leaders.
e ‘‘Sojourners’’
magazine. This paper of
Jim Wallis and Ron
Sider is supposedly
“christian’?, but seems
to promote the take-over
of the world by Russian
imperialism. According

a

to Wallis the Americans
are the aggressors. The
KGB probably likes that.
It is all in the name of
“neace’’,

@ Mennonites, in my
opinion, should know
better and should know
that the human race has
fallen in sin according to
their Bible. That means
there will be no peace on
earth .(except in one’s
heart) till after Christ’s
return, not one day
sooner, Only at that time
will people forge their
swords into plough
shares.

@ Only by a true return
to God, by a change of
hearts, will a measure of
peace be restored. If we
continue with our abor-
tion, lesbianism, gayism,
pornography, etc. etc.
God’s wrath will remain
and there will be no
peace. All man-made
peace situations will fail.
Peace marches will ac-
complish nothing. The
absence of weapons will
accomplish nothing.

In the meantime our
God-given government
has to defend its man-
date according to
Romans 13. You shall
not kill, I shall not kill,
you and I have to turn
the other cheek, but our
government has to yield
the sword not in vain.
Let us not mix up
Biblical truths. God’s
peace be in your hearts
and minds,

Bill Homburg
Terrace, B.C.

- purported by scientists to

. tionalism and the pursuit

is dying from one of
these ‘essential’ cancers.

With the nuclear in-.
‘dustry, we have created a

monster with a glossy
finish. We are destroying
the ecosystem which
gives us and maintains
our lives and the lives of
our children. One
grapefruit sized blob of
plutonium = evenly
distributed, has been

have the potential to kill
us all. The Swedes have
now detected plutonium
from Chernobyl. How
many grapefruits are out
there now?
Mankinds’ petty na-
of economic growth for
its own sake, is letting us
live in a temporary
euphoria, where most of
us care little for tomor-
row,
Those of us who
understand the lesson of
Chernobyl, might say
that unless we dump our
traditional . narcissistic
provincialism, dividing
mankind into camps and
enemies, and don’t start
loving this planet half as
much as we do ourselves
and our institutions,
there won’t be a tomor-
row.
We must at once begin
to disband the nuclear
industry and put its
radioactive poisons into
deep storage, along with
the fears and distrusts
that generated the mind
set that has led us to the
brink, and begin to write
new global constitutions
that reflect the com-
monality of all mankind
and the vital dependency
which we all share in the
health of this tiny planet.
If we can meet this
challenge, then for
perhaps the first time,

mankind may be said to: -

have reached true
civilization and to be tru-
ly a higher form of life.
Until then, we are
responding, in my opi-
nion, like chimps, to
leopards, in a knee jerk
reaction to fear.

It must be kept in
mind that if our popula-
tion doubles every 33
years, we will need a
healthy planet more than
ever before, not less, and
consequently, we must
strive to improve its
health instead of the con-

verse. Perhaps we should

educate our governments
rather than tending to be
indoctrinated by them.
Imagine the wealth,
health and joy we could
all bask in if we disband-
ed our military, worked
together for a healthy
planet, prohibited the
manufacture. and

distribution of ‘car-
cinogenic substances and
responded to interna-
tional concerns with love

instead of fear.
Jorma Jyrkkanen,
Terrace, B.C,

a re. core’

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