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:
“There are words in that letter to his wife, respecting the education of his daughters, which deserve to be framed and hung over every mantelpiece in the land. Compare this earnest wisdom with that of Poor Richard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.”
—Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)