What a title. It's meant to hearken back to other such 'Education of '
titles, some of which should be taken seriously, others ironically. In
the case of Merasty's story, there's a good chance that both he, now
living in Prince Albert, and the man who helped him get his story into
print, Saskatoon writer David Carpenter, wanted the title to have a
savage degree of irony to it.
Like many of his generation, Joseph Auguste Merasty was sent by his parents to a church-run residential school, in his case the Roman Catholic St. Therese school in Sturgeon Landing, Sask., just across the border from Manitoba. This was August 1935. There he would be kept until 1944, when he could legally quit and get away.
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Harsh+truths+residential+school/10964037/story.html
Like many of his generation, Joseph Auguste Merasty was sent by his parents to a church-run residential school, in his case the Roman Catholic St. Therese school in Sturgeon Landing, Sask., just across the border from Manitoba. This was August 1935. There he would be kept until 1944, when he could legally quit and get away.
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Harsh+truths+residential+school/10964037/story.html