Stories from our AEVS Centres

By Terry Haig “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” The thought comes from B.B. King. The words sit in a wall poster on the ground floor of the John. F. Kennedy Adult Education Centre that occupies a healthy section of a formidable concrete building that has long housed  this popular  institution of lifelong learning located in St. Michel. The intersection is Rue Villeray and Blvd. St. Michel, part of a neighbourhood long known as a place where newcomers to Canada can settle to seek the wherewithal to find the place they want to get to in the so-called Canadian Mosaic. Education, of course, is a key part of that search for a better life.Especially, the math part. Turns out, math might be a terrific place to start in the quest to find a place–despite the heartache, frustration and panic trying to learn it can bring. Math, especially as it is taught today, is about way more than just the numbers–especially when those numbers are as near as that ph