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Show Aiding The Schools The idea that business men should not take an interest in the kind of textbooks text-books pertaining to business which are used in the school is not shared by the United States Bureau of Education, according ac-cording to a recent official statement from that bureau. Commending the activity of various groups of business men in cooperating with educational authorities, the Bureau Bur-eau of Education says: "The kinds of cooperation have ranged rang-ed from free exchange of ideas thru conferences and literature, cooperative researches concerning various problems and cooperative guidance and training programs to actual correction of errors in textbooks. In the past many textbooks text-books for commercial subjects have been prepared by authors whose business busi-ness experience, if any was not sufficient suf-ficient to enable them to record accurately accura-tely the practicies in business. , "As a result of research, 4,560 corrections correc-tions were made and reported to 25 publishers of the text. The responses from the authors and publishers have proved the worthiness of business men's efforts to put commercial education on a fact basis," It is obvious that professors who have had no contact with actual business conditions are not equipped to prepare unaided suitable text-books on business subjects. Many texts now in use are several years old and were probably very imperfect when first written. Without cooperation of practical business busi-ness men it is impossible for the schools to keep abreast with the times in these subjects. |