A Manitoba where all citizens are able to realize their full career and educational potential.
To provide Manitobans with a wide range of experiences and information designed to develop the knowledge, skills, relationships, and values consistent with career and educational success.
When they succeed, we all suceed.
Every person has a right to a formal education.
Education is a primary key to combating poverty.
Every person has the right to understand the importance of gaining a formal education to his or her life.
Given that the selection of senior high courses represent a critical event in a person’s life, it is imperative that students make these selections with a full and complete understanding of the impact that their choices can have on their personal future.
It is important not to confuse post-secondary enrollment with career clarity. Many people enrolled in post-secondary education struggle to complete their studies or enter areas that are not their life’s work because they have been unable to find their passion(s).
Encouraging young people to “follow their heart” is good advice when young people are provided with the opportunity to discover where their heart is.
The provision of experiences, not abstract information, is the key to helping people “find their heart.”
If you want to know what to do with your life, you should have the chance to try it first.
The connection between school, its subjects and life is often not obvious.
Never confuse academic grades as an absolute indicator of a person’s academic, career and life potential.
It is our job to believe that a person can succeed. By doing so, it is more likely that success will be realized.
The education of our people is a community responsibility.
Formal education can occur seven days a week, 24 hours a day, and in virtually any setting.
Families are the single greatest influence on a child’s success. Parents and guardians must possess the knowledge that they need to properly guide their child/children’s educational and career decisions.
Having a formal education does not make oneself a better person, a harder worker or smarter person than a person with a lower level of formal education.
Money is an important factor to access post-secondary education, but it is not the first factor, nor is it the most important one.
It is wrong to direct those with high academic grades to university and those with lower ones to college. A college education is as valuable as a university education.
Career development is a process, not a day.
Career development must start at a young age, when academics, attitude, aspirations and experiences are in their most formative stages.
To gain formal education is an important step in personal and community success when coupled with the skills, attitudes and experiences needed to create a whole person.