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PAGE 8, THE HERALD, Tuesday, July 18, 1978

SPECIAL FEATURE

A FLAME WITHIN THE SPEARHEAD_

" OF the ttle lives that now

Part 1 Of 4 parts

A Chailenge to Northern
Teachers
PART I
1 cannot speak
In fullest sense
My joy
At being with you now;
Nor truly show my pride at
being called
To talk to you,
Because for me there is no-
one in all the north
Who holds more awful power
Than you,
Here,
Now.
I say this.
Once again,
As many times before;
You are the most important
people yet
To come amongst us in
The north,
You hold
The future in the hollow of
your hands.
You
And only you
Can daily shape
The gentle clay of human
intellect
To meet with calm and
certainty
The complex
Social,
Technical

. EDITOR'S NOTE

Above is part ome of a
prose poem, “A Flame
Within The Spearhead". This
epic has a most unusual
hislory; in fact it has even
made northern Canadian
history,

Adapted from a speech
given to approximately 40,
teachers of Eskimo children
at a Northern Conference a
number of years ago, and
published in THE TAIGA
TIMES, demands _for
reprints were received from
all over the world, Including
UNESCO, Dunedia
university New Zealand, and
(for 500 copies) fram the
Manitoba Teachers

‘tually

And deeply
Penetrating personal
demands
Which now are closing in

Upon

An ancient, prideful people,
Wise indeed

In living ways

Which brought them forth
triumphantly

Trhough fifiy centuries

Of quiet

Arctic

Family living;.

Far

From other human ken,

In places where

rhe early white men often

i
In helplessness.

Balanced,
At this very time,
Between two

mn ‘ospects,

One,
Emergence into world
Identifying
Prowlly with
A history and culture

Association, A special
supplement of the TIMES
featuring the “Flame” sold
out as soon as it was off the
newsstands and so on,

. Produced, ati the
newspaper was, on a vir-
volunteer basis;
largely ag a labour of love,
orders for the reprints from
all over, were left unfilled
when the paper changed
hands and “went com-
mercial’,

. The HERALD editor would
suggest to readera they
might do well to clip and
save the four parts of this
reprint, to read as a unit,
although each part Is
reasonably complete.

polar -

Calling forth reapect
From all perceptive,
True

And honest

Men,

Or otherwise

A rapid loss of sense

Amidst the culture patterns

This great and lovely land,
This mosaic

Which make up Canada,
This choice for Canada
Is yours to make,

People

Are not vessels,
Drained with ease
id one old pation,

With something new,
The culture of a man
Is rooted deeply -

In his psyche.

Lo

ng
Before his voice grows deep,
He runs
In boyhood
From his mother’s lap;

.-Slmply, the theme Is this:-

‘the awful responsibility of

our educational system
(especially that of the
teachers) In imparting the
education and culture of our
system without harm and
Bain to those of an “ancient
prideful people.’ In the
transition period, the need to
respect not only those who
are being taught, but alao the
parents and families. To
realize that in such a
teaching situation, the
teacher is (or ought to be) as
much the student as those
whom he seeks to teach, and
unless he learns from his
puplis, he cannot truly
“teach, E.S,

Last Week’s Forest Fires
Cost Taxpayers $926,400

. Fifteen new fires were
reported in the Prince
Rupert Forest District last
week, Extremely warm and
dry weather conditions
contributed to the large size
of some of these fires. The

* cost of fire fighting this week

is estimated at $926,400.00
bringing total costs to date to
$1,560,500.00.

..Campfires have been one
of the major causes of Forest
Fires in this District, Much
has been written about

campfires, however, a quick

-review seems to be in order.

«1. Make sure area is clear
of anything that will burn.
Three meters from trees 17
m from buildings. Scrape
away all debris fer 1m from
the fire,

.. 2, Keep the fire small, A
large fire burns biscuits and
bodies, a small campfire can
cook your food, warm your
soul and dry your clothes all
without pain,

» 3 Have a shovel and a two

gallon pail handy to control
the fire if it gets away and
alsh for putting the fre out
when you are Mnished.
--During the July = 1st
weekend the Terrace Ranger
District had three fires
caused by abandoned
campfires, the Lower Poat
Ranger District had one.
Forest Rangers Herb Quast
of Terrace and Jim Dunlop
of Lower Post have enough
to do without battling
campfire caused fires.

School Guidance Councellors
Must Take Broader Viewpoint

SASKATOON (CP) —
School guidance counsellors
should look beyond simply
helping students choose
careers and help them
develop as complete indi-
viduals, says Norman
Gysbers, president of the
American Personnel and
Guidance Association.

Gysbers told delegates toa
Canadian Guidance and
Counselling Association
conference: ‘'We must bring
together fragmented and

isolated guidance techniques
under a broadened career
concept,’

“The task for all of us is to
empower those we serve to
become all they can.”

Vocational guidance is still
a big part of the counsellor’s
job but the initial guidance
should be augmented with
job-placement help and a
follow-up study.

Frank Vanhesteren, an eu-
deational psychology
professor at University of

Saskatchewan told the
delegates the term “‘career”
is misleading,

Career is important at all
stages but It is inaccurate to
suggest it is equally im-
portant at all levels,”

Gysbers said there should
be a complete guidance
program in schools,

“We are not ad hoe, in-
cidental or neice, butnot-
necessary,” he said, “We
need to be a full partner with
other programs,"

Tut’s Tour Touts Travel To Tomb

CAMO’ (AP) -— Tut-
ankhamen, the boy king wha
ruled Egypt more than 3,000
years ago, and President
Anwar Sadat, whose peace
initiatives last winter
propelled him inte the world
spotlight, have turned into a
pair of good-will am-
bassadors for Egyptian
tourism.

Travel agents and tourism
olficials here say Sadat’s
trips to the United States and
ta Jerusalem, and the King
Tut exhibit now touring the
United States, have con-
tributed: to Egypt's at-
traction as a vacation spot.
But an informal check of
American tourlats in Cairo
indicated that many others
are simply looking for a new
place to visit. A total of about
1.1 million tourists came to
Egypt last year,

“President Sadat’s peace
initiative has done a lot for
tourism and the image of
Egypt in the United States,”
said Mohamed el Sakka,
chairman of Misr Travel and
Shipping, Egypt's largest
travel agency.

“The main thing, in my
opinion, is it has given people
some sort of security that
peace is at the door, because
they were always thinking
that this is a troubled area,”

Sakka added.

But Dan Pruitt, a tour:
group leader for United
States Travel in Washington,
said his agency's “Treasures

of Tutankhamen" tour
became one of the moat
popular after the pharaonic
tomb objects were displayed
at the National Gailery,

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pith all all reality
For him
Conditioned by
His living heritage,
And even walks and gestures
with
Enrculturated,
Life-learned moves.
You cannot
Take away a culture
Without touching too
The fabric of the personality,

The teaching of another ar way

To live and speak and
and hope -‘and name
your fellow man - ;

n ev open learner ,

brings to you
The clement of other an:
cient ways,
Integrated whole
And socially sufficient -

The inculcation of
A new and different set
Of thoughts and values -
Implies or states devaluation
of
The culture of the indigene.
‘You cannot do
This to the culture in
Abstraction.
outa
ylives
ang operates,
And dies,
Through man,
To hurt
The culture
Hurts the man.
Oné cracks
Or breaks
The vessel, ;
Leaving something weak in
spirit and unwhole.

wince:

- arco 4 Spy the nth
wv made y ‘Yeat Mot

pound wae ™

To take the new elixers of-
fered so

Enthrallingly

And ardently.

You do not yet,
However,
Bear the weight of this

_ Fesponsibility
Al

ong.
In every settlement,

In every home,

Your frienda,

Your h

And our allies wait -

if only you will call theni
‘0

By going to them first.
I mean
The fathers,

Mothers
And grandparent

So very much —

Belong to you -

Are yours to make or break.
Research

Has shown

The best success to come
Among the children

Or adults

Who for themselves have
chosen and invalved
Themselves in education in
its widest sense

‘More children fail in
education when

They come from homes
which have not felt a sense
or full inclusion in a process

t
Goes far beyond’ the black-
board and .
The tattered text.

We come from small com-
munities,
Qur every act makes ripples

pon
And stirs the cool. and
waiting waters
Often deeper than you think,
They feel
But are too proud to show
Their hurts ;
When. someone treats a
hunter like a child -_
With patronising,
Or with curt ine ory,
And every day hurts more

When someene mutilates

His name th
Or spurns the one
He gave his child.

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