EDITOR,
Jim Harvey's letter in the Chief last week, "Congratulations Quest," has captured the key elements that describe the disconnect between the university and the community.
A university is a social, economic and intellectual asset to any community that has one. 麻豆社国产has two of them! The universities have enabled 麻豆社国产to leap into a future that most other communities will never experience. We have lost much of our early industrial energy but it has been replaced with the most sophisticated toolkit any community could wish for. The universities are the keys to the intellectual and knowledge-based industries that we often read about or wish we understood better. However, they are here in 麻豆社国产and actively going about their wonderful role of teaching and learning and energizing young and old alike. Yet, sadly, there are few initiatives to engage the energy which can exist between a university and a community. 麻豆社国产is quickly turning into a learning destination with recreation, museums, environmental learning centres and new junior schools coming on stream.
There is much work to be done.Larry Murray Squamish
