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Show Brigham Young University to Train Teachers for Driving Instruction Individual! and organisations Inter-fated Inter-fated in traffic safety agree on of tha meat promising fields for accident reduction reduc-tion to ths education and training of beginning be-ginning driver in the publie schools. If youngsters learn correct and safe driving driv-ing habits to begin with, tha chance ara excellent those good habit will stay with them. Check In fact have established estab-lished that school-trained driver have fewer accident than those who do not receive auch training. In Utah we are making real progress In spreading driver education throughout . our school system. Many of Utah' high schools now give regular driver training train-ing courses. Including behlnd-the-wbeel Instruction. On drawback to achieving a 100 per cent program of driver training In the high school Is a lack of qualified instructors. in-structors. Before school youngster eaa be taught how to drive properly we must have qualified driver training teacher ' In the schools. Utah' Institution of higher education have helped to meet thia problem by providing special eouriea of Instruction in driver training. The latest lat-est such course is scheduled at Brigham Toung univeralty from August 29 through September 3, an Intensive one week course with instruction from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. A number of group and agencies in-tereated in-tereated in aafety are cooperating In holding this Inatitute, Including the Utah Congress of Parent and Teachers -Utah Automobile Dealer association, Utah Safety council, the state department of public Instruction and the state highway patrol. The Aasociatioji of Casualty and Surety companies, New York City, I ending an experienced driver education educa-tion Instructor out to conduct the course. The educational committee of the President's Higbwsy Safety conference emphasized the nerd for such Instruction when it ssld in As report: ". . . If schools are to provide this Instruction, more 'work must he don In teacher preparation. It must not be assumed that, because teacher are certified to teach other subjects, they csn do an effective ef-fective Job in safety education without additional training." Utah owes a vote of thank to B T U for arranging thia driver training Institute. In-stitute. If Utah' school administrator and teacher take advantage of it. It hould lead to more and better training of beginning driver and fewer accident acci-dent In the future aa a result i |