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Bruce A. Lesh



                          The Jesuit Fathers receive young savages.
Jesuits, 21 Decembre 1632, Élie de Salail, 366 Anniversaires Canadiens, James McIsaac, 1949








Byte magazine, American Cancer Society,  Nov 1975, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons




Notice to school teachers for examinations, Gananoque, 23 June 1862, Archives of Ontario C 233-1-4-2246




Merit for Diligence, Toronto Reference Library ca.1870.MeritDiligence.vs




Merit for Good Conduct, Toronto Reference Library ca.1870MeritAlbert.vs




Merit for Punctuality, Toronto Reference Library ca.1870.MeritPunctuality.vs







Harper's Weekly, New York, 26 February 1870




Harper's Weekly, New York, 27 Sept 1873

With visage haggard and worn,
With eyes deep-sunken and red,
A child sat cramming scholastic bosh
Who ought to have been in his bed.

No sleep for the urchin to-night–
He fears the “bad mark” of the Ma’am–
He’ll toss on his bed till ’tis light
And then to his books and his cram!

No laughter of rollicking youth
But an air of old age that’s a sham–
A trembling, cringing, prison-house air,
The result of the system of cram!

Cram, cram, cram,
Algebra, Euclid and Roots,
Cram, cram, cram,
Cram it down into his boots!

Cram! cram! cram!
A school-full of galley slave mutes;
Cram, cram, cram,
Botany, Spelling and Roots!

O, when will they mix common sense
With their boasted common school plan,
And learn that a boy was not meant for a guy–
But a wide-awake, every-day man?

[Mazeppas: Students are the unwilling riders of the wild horse.]





















Statue of Egerton Ryerson in front of the Education Department Building in Toronto, 1890, Archives of Ontario F 1125-1-0-0-182




1898 LAC National Council of Women Ottawa a028033











































Art School, Emily Carr, BC Archives PDP06152, 1901




Alonzo Ryan, Political Caricature in Canada, 1904




Alonzo Ryan, Political Caricature in Canada, 1904
















The Canadian Courier, Toronto, 3 July 1909















Puck, New York, 16 September 1916









Sewing class, George Agnew Reid, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1917























 











































 







 












 



 



  



 














 











The Manitoban, Winnipeg, 9 January 1951







 










 










 


 
  




The Fisherman, Vancouver, 13 August 1957




AFL-CIO, Washington, 31 August 1957



 







 



 



 



 
 

 
    



  
 



 
   
 


 

 


 

 
 
 

The Manitoban, Winnipeg, 11 February 1966









 










 
 

























 

































 



The Manitoban, Winnipeg, 9 November, 1974