How Attending Adult Education Centres Changed My Life Having graduated from Adult Education Centres in June, 2011, I am now attending the University of Manitoba to pursue a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. I have always believed that education is a lifelong goal and everyday is a chance to learn something new. My parents believed that […]
Read MoreThe Medicine Wheel Director’s Address to the Graduates of 2013 by Anne Grossman Today is National Aboriginal Day, so I have decided to use the Medicine Wheel to help explain the journey we have taken to reach the milestone we are celebrating today. (All information pertaining to the medicine wheel is based on the Aboriginal […]
Read MoreGood Afternoon Ladies and Gentleman Guests, Fellow Graduates, Teachers and our director Anne It is hard to explain, words cannot describe the feelings we graduates are experiencing today what this moment is all about for most of us. This was a long and winding road that we travelled to be here this afternoon. In a […]
Read MoreAveleigh Ladd – Valedictorian Grad 2013 Good afternoon fellow graduates, teachers, family and friends. It has been a long, treacherous road, but we are here, we are graduating. I would like to begin today by saying how thankful that I am to have met each and every one of you. If it weren’t for you, […]
Read MoreTo AEC’s Class of 2012 by Allan Donald June 22nd, 2012 “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own […]
Read MoreAddress to AEC Graduates, June 2012 by Phil McBurney, Director This is my 13th year in adult education, and for 13 years in a row I have given an address to adults graduating from high school. This is also my 60th year in school. That’s right. I’ve either been a student or a teacher or […]
Read Moreby 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 […]
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