Borrowing money to get an education 26 April 2021 Reading time: 3 min 30 s Dian Cohen
By Dian Cohen
My father was an old-fashioned dad who believed that girls go to school to meet a fellow to marry and look after them for the rest of their lives. But he was also ahead of his time in that he took me to his office almost every Saturday morning. That’s where he taught me double entry bookkeeping when I was 12. That simple skill put me through university – in those days, part-time work was easy to come by Toronto had lots of small manufacturers along Spadina Street, and I got five morning jobs where I made coffee, tidied up and did the bookkeeping. That left me the afternoon and evening to take classes.
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