EDUCATION
We learn from experience, but we
learn more from our teachers, for
mal and informal. We thank them for
the opportunity. Education week is
the occasion to honor teachers above
all others. We can appreciate and
honor the teachers most highly when
we realize their problems: children
of parents who neither care nor. wish
to know what their children do, diff
iculties obtaining needed equipment,
insufficient time to prepare and
check lessons, too many pupils to
allow effective teaching, the frus
tration of too many duties demanding
attention and the resulting inade
quate private life.
however, a teacner may leel comp
ensated for these pains by knowing
the benefits of formal schooling.
An education is an enrichment of our
liveso It goes on all the time. We
begin to understand nature and the
physical history of the land, of the
development of nations, of the di
versity of people. Education acq
uaints us with art, drama, and music
and the people involved. It enables
us to compare our own social situ
ation with that of others, ouch an
education'is joyous and exciting.
Education gives us knowledge of
places, things, and people; of pro
cedures and reasons. Education pro
vides the basis for wise decision
making regarding occupation and rec
re.ation, for citizenship and friend
ship, and it provides us with.the
languages and techniques to contrib
ute to, and be supported by, the
economy.
by bamuel e 1\1 nigntwood.
( Note- This editorial was written
by Mr Lightwood originally for
"Education Week; even though that
special week has passed, we felt his
article to still be of interest.
Lightwood is a homesteader living
in the Kenny Lake district, married,
and with 2 children. Both he and his
wife are teachers, and Sam has taught
at the Kenny Lake School.
cont from- col 2' .
Whether itTs spent here as capital
improvement or invested locally, it’s
bound to give us a broader base from
which to cleave from the topheavy
military and federal spending that
we so heavily depend on now.
■ Write about 10$..it?s part of
your future. j
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Complete Cor Service/
JACK ROGERS*1
,-r,DDCD LODGE"
GA RAG E
KENNY Li.KE NOTES Howard Kibble
Since this area is primarily one
given to the pursuit of agriculture, |
there is a piece of legislation that '
should be of interest to most of its j
residents.
There is a source of financial aid
to farmers and others in agriculture
endeavors, known as the Alaska Revol
ving Fund; working, with appropriations
from the legislature and administeredi
by officials from Department of Agri-;
culture, Div of Natural Resources of j
the State. It has done a great deal
in the past to assist farmers in es
tablishing a stable economy in this ;
field here in Alaska.
The appropriation has been made by i
the Legislature for next year for
this fund, and it will go out of ex
istance and seriously effect the
growth of an important segment of the
overall business picture of the State
unless something cah be done soon.
There is in the House at the present
time a Bill (10B) w^rich would solve
this problem and change.a practice
which would seem to not be in the
best interests of all state residents,
not just the farmers here. Up until .
now the State Hmployees Retirement
Fund and the State Teachers Retire
ment Fund have been invested outside =
of Alaska in bonds, mututal funds, and
other channels of regular state and
municipal investments. These funds ■
cannot be invested in Alaska in like
interest producing channels such as
the .',1aska Revolving Fund ( where the
return would be' the same and' adminis
tration costs would -remain unchanged)
unless the present law concerning,
these funds is rewritten slightly to
enable the people in charge of, in
vesting this money to keep it within
the State.
i
Expecting that the law would be re
written to allow this., the legislature
made no appropriation for this fund, j
however there is a possibility the [
law will remain unchanged, either thru
lack of time or interest on the part
of delegations in steering it thru j
the proper channels.
I am opposed, vehemently so, to the
practice of long years standing of
siphoning investments and profits out
of the state. There is of course, Out
side money invested, in our state from
which a reasonable share stay here,
but something should be done toward
retaining a certain portion of profit
headed out of Alaska.
( Continued Col. 1 )
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BAYLESS &
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