It struck me later in life there were three glaring problems with this:ġ) A teacher (of all people) never exhibited the intellectual curiosity to find out the history of her school. She said at lunch her and I could go to the front where they have a plaque dedicating the school to HJ Lassaline and providing some biographical information. She had to admit she had no idea (I believe she had been there as a teacher for several years). Schools are always named after famous, august people, no?įirst day at my new school I asked my teacher in front of the whole class who exactly HJ Lassaline was. My family moved to Windsor (a factory town near Detroit). It was a real source of pride to be at a school named after a great Canadian scientist. When he was alive he would actually visit the school once a year to give a talk to the students of the school named after him. As students, we were well aware of who this man was. My grade school in Montreal was named after a famous Canadian brain surgeon, Wilder Penfield. Your experience going to a new school not meeting expectations reminded me of moving from Montreal to Windsor as youth.
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