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:
“The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, much legislation is moral legislation because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres of life.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)
“How to attain sufficient clarity of thought to meet the terrifying issues now facing us, before it is too late, is ... important. Of one thing I feel reasonably sure: we can’t stop to discuss whether the table has or hasn’t legs when the house is burning down over our heads. Nor do the classics per se seem to furnish the kind of education which fits people to cope with a fast-changing civilization.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)