Education
For hundreds of teachers and parents across the Greater Toronto Area, Downsview Park has established itself as a valuable and respected educational and recreational resource for children and youth. The Park’s sustainability-focused, curriculum-based free school programs currently provide more than 16,000 students—from Peel to York to Durham—an opportunity to meaningfully connect with their natural environment. As with all of the Park’s education programs, each relies on the rich natural and cultural heritage of Downsview Park including some of the Park’s tenants on site such as FoodCycles and the Toronto Beekeepers Co-op. Downsview Park also offers its popular Summer Dayz Camp for children aged six to 12 years, as well as a March Break camp. New to March Break camp in 2011 was a program created for youth aged 13-15 years of age—Leadership Camp, designed to help young teens develop valuable leadership skills. Campers enjoy natural, cultural and recreational attractions unique to Downsview Park, with day camp themes including nature, art, science, great outdoors, sports and leadership. As with the Park’s free education programs, many of the tenants of Downsview Park were involved with camp programming.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”
—Laurent A. Daloz (20th century)
“Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)