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Telling the Stories of the Nikkei - New Denver
Learning can be both a very personal experience and a collective endeavour. Whether carried out in a classroom or throughout the experiences of our daily lives, we rarely learn in isolation. Here you can find out how others view education a...
Learning can be both a very personal experience and a collective endeavour. Whether carried out in a classroom or throughout the experiences of our daily lives, we rarely learn in isolation. Here you can find out how others view education and learning, and share your stories too.
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An archive of texts on Egerton Ryerson

Hyperlink: http://www.ryerson.ca/archives/history.html

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Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882)
An early editorial from the Christian Guardian, founded by Egerton Ryerson (1829)

"On the importance of education generally we may remark, it is as necessary as the light-it should be as common as water, and as free as air....Education among the people is the best security of a good government and constitutional liberty, it yields a steady unbending support to the former, and effectually protects the latter. An educated people are always a loyal people to good government; and the first object of a wise government should be the education of the people....Partial knowledge is better than total ignorance; and he who cannot get all he may wish, must take heed to acquire all he can. If total ignorance be a bad and dangerous thing, every degree of knowledge lessens both the evil and the danger."


 

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