Show technician T to 1 13 i to carry on the war to a sue successful ess completion industry ts s requiring u bring more and more youth with te technical h training this young lady intently studying an object through a high powered microscope will be well prepared to take one of the thousands of 0 jobs which will be open to her when she leaves high school hurry the preparation ol of men Is a logical demand it has been proposed that high schools continue during the summer on saturdays and holidays that the school terms be reduced in length in order to give those who will soon be under arms as much education as possible in general educators have strongly opposed universal acceleration of high school pupils the attitude of the wartime corn commission isslyn of the united states 0 office mee of education may be taken as typical its recent report points out that hat hat hastening ening the progress of students through school will enable them to go into defense jobs defense training classes non defense jobs to replace persons who have left for defense jobs or into the armed forces or to enter college earlier these purposes are commendable thinks the commission but it rules against general acceleration in favor of stepping up the rate of progress only for pupils who are physically and intellectually able to speed up with profit to the war effort and no damage to the pupils themselves because this opinion is so widely held by educators there is little likelihood that the school year will be shorter than the years preceding it another policy will be followed by colleges and higher institutions where the maturity of students and the exigencies of war make acceleration feasible and profitable different courses emphasized the students who are entering school this month will find some outstanding shifts of emphasis in the courses of study since september 1941 these do not represent radical changes only q a few of these changes can be offered by way of illustration geography is an excellent subject with which to begin since unlike current events and history it is usually thought of as not changing much from day to day the continents and oceans the mountains and rivers are more or less constant in size and position these physical facts however are not of great importance except as they affect the lives of men the geography textbook therefore which includes a chapter on the rubber plantations of sumatra and the malay peninsula is due tor for somi some revision war has considerably altered the political status of great portions ot of the map world commerce has found new trade routes and trade itself is heavily in commodities modi ties little sought a few years ago methods of travel are changing in g the character of the maps which students will use aviation has made the flat map or mercator projection ot of secondary importance the globe is taking its place those of us who visualize japan due west of the united states find it difficult to realize that airplanes on their shortest route from tokyo to the panama canal would first strike the united states somewhere on the canadian border the need for mathematics mathematics another study that is often thought of as fixed in nature since the same two numbers always add up to the same total will see its change also for many years the schools have been ad adjusting justin 9 arith arithmetic to the dally daily needs of a people at peace the te textbook problems therefore have had to do with matters like life insurance income taxes budget making home management and bookkeeping suddenly there comes a demand tor for skill in the use of the mathematics needed by the bombardier and gunner the reason for the lack of these skills I 1 Is the same reason which prompted our government to sell scrap iron and gasoline to japan we were i a peaceful people and hoped to remain so the mathematics of navigation and ballistics the chemistry ry of the munitions worker the he physics of the military eagin engineer eer will most certainly find their way into school and college curriculums aind and will stay there until the minds and aad hearts of men are set once inore more on the arts of peace |