Show A Matter of Background Something is wrong with American high Educators are beginning to recognize the fact that the average high school graduate is not prepared to make the transition from high school to since he is not sufficiently oriented to be able to pursue a stable course during the beginning of his college life and lacks the broad educational background which a student should have before he begins specializing in any one field of colleges are forced to devote the first two years of a student's training to general courses designed to correct this Certain Utah educators have proposed meeting this problem with a solution which certainly merits H. Aldous president of Weber Junior and a member of President Truman's commission on higher pointed out in a recent institute at the University of Utah that the difference in grades between the average veteran freshman and the average freshman just out of high school gives one important most high school students simply aren't old enough for college The solution continue public education to the grade instead of the the as it has been in Salt Lake There is much to be said for this from the point of view of those who do not go on to college as well as those who Those extra two years of education could mean much to a student who is financially unable to attend And from the viewpoint of the student who is able to go on with higher it would mean that he could take most of his general subjects in high he could complete his English before he became a and his professors could teach their courses having to lay groundwork which should have been laid in high Dixon is not proposing this plan as a theoretical possibility in the distant he is advocating it Many educators agree that it is the next logical step in the development of our educational If this is true what are we waiting E. B. |