Editor:
Lexa, you are right. [March 11 ‘Schools teach the tools’] our education system is for children, though, somehow we must not stop there. I think the point I was trying to make is we cannot afford, as a society, to lack knowledge about basic things that affect us all.
Maybe, what we really need is to instill an attitude of life-long learning. We need to learn how to ask the right questions. What are the rules at a four-way stop? What are the Rights and Freedoms in the Canadian Constitution? What is a vaccine and how do they work?
We are fortunate to live in a time when asking questions is so easy with our smart phones and computers. What we need now, is to want to learn to ask the right questions and to evaluate the answers hopefully using a moral compass that uses fairness and compassion.
There will be a test.
That’s Life.
Joan Payne, Sechelt
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