by Phil McBurney Director, AEC I was pretty good in high school math. English—not so much. Final marks: Math-99%, English 63%. So what did I do after high school? Naturally, I went on to take English at university—choosing to major in my worst high school subject. Now, I liked English; I just wasn’t very good […]
Read Moreby Phil McBurney Director, AEC Recently a former student named Meghann Mclachlan participated on a panel that came to AEC to talk about the transition from our centre to post-secondary. Meghann is now in third year at the University of Winnipeg with a double major in Sociology and Criminal Justice. The transformation in Meghann over […]
Read Moreby Phil McBurney Director, AEC Richard is a fellow adult educator I had the pleasure of working with a few years ago. He liked to challenge students who make excuses for not showing up to class or not handing in assignments. Richard would ask, ”Why are you here?” His student would say, “Well, I really […]
Read Moreby Phil McBurney Director, AEC I love football. It was the first sport I played that I was any good at. I can watch any game from peewee to professional and get engaged in it. I love the CFL, and I love the NFL even more, because the National Football League has arguably the biggest, […]
Read Moreby Phil McBurney Director, AEC There was a very interesting column a couple of Junes ago in the Free Press by Gordon Sinclair about Burton Cummings. St. John’s High School had just had its 100th reunion. It was a huge event with a gala dinner, dance and concert where Burton Cummings and his touring band […]
Read Moreby Phil McBurney Director, AEC For several years now, I have been clipping articles about what happens to boys in the education system. As a high school teacher, I didn’t notice the problem so much, but I really started to notice it when I became an adult educator. What’s the problem, you ask? The problem […]
Read Moreby Phil McBurney Director, AEC Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence makes reference to a famous experiment conducted by researchers involving children and marshmallows. Children, roughly kindergarten age, were brought into a room by themselves and given a single marshmallow. They were told they could eat it immediately, or, if they were willing to […]
Read Moreby Phil McBurney Director, AEC We tend to turn up our noses at the thought of working in the service industry at places like McDonald’s. Service industry jobs have been portrayed as unfulfilling, repetitive, requiring little skill or thought. However, Maclean’s magazine ran an interesting article by Stephanie Findlay in its August 31, 2009 edition, […]
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