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Show . .EDUCATION AIj SHORT OUT A college course reduced to two years and a resulting short-cut to professional .training is the .aim of a group of influential educators in America who are advocating radical changes in our educational system. The School of Education of the University of Utah, under the direction direc-tion of Dean Milton Bennion, i : has taken up the issue and is holding a series of meetings for the purpose of discussing it. Educators from various vari-ous parts of the State are being called call-ed 1n tO' express their views. Local opinion on the matter is crystalizing very rapidly and in the main it is favorable to the change. . If the innovation is adopted It will reduce the individual's school career to six years of elementary work, three years of junior high school work, three of senior high school and two of college. After that the young man will be free to pursue his professional pro-fessional or technical training and thus get into his . life's pursuit two years sooner. that he does under the prevailing system. It means essentially essen-tially that two years are to be added to every man's productive life. |