{"id":1861,"date":"2015-01-07T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:34:18","slug":"for-your-grandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wdvalgardsonkaffihus.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/for-your-grandchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"For Your Grandchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was going to high school, there were few individuals in town who had a university education. The two doctors, the dentist, the druggist, some of the teachers (although many of the teachers had Normal School and some university courses). A lawyer visited town on a set schedule. The university was, to me, a distant and unknown place. I had no idea what people did at a university.<\/p>\n

My father was a commercial fisherman. He needed to have a job when the seasonal fishing was over so he had a barber shop. In that way, not much has changed in rural Canada. In towns with small populations, earning a living from one job is often difficult, if not impossible. Much of the work is seasonal: farming, fishing, tourism, construction. Most people are self-employed.<\/p>\n

I never saw myself as a doctor, dentist, or druggist. Someone said I should consider becoming a lawyer because I argued a lot.<\/p>\n

I stumbled into university because I had a summer job and my work mates were all going. They suggested I join them. They were the sons of executives with better educations, lived in the city and knew about university.<\/p>\n

I think my stumbling into the world of a hundred and fifty students in a classroom amphitheatre with no idea of why I was there except to be at university was pretty typical of many students. How could I possibly know what I wanted to be when I had no idea what there was that I could be?<\/p>\n

Has much changed? From what I saw over forty years of teaching in public high school, private college, public universities, I don<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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