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Might not better training ae assured, especially to
candidates for the a.B. who take only one elective
course, if the electives were held to a few courses,
each with a definite purpose, particularly in view
of the fact that the elective course is not a pre-
requisite to « Kansas certificate?
Should some use be made of our nursery schools as labora-
tories for the School of Education?
The Home Economics Department has done a magnificient
job in organizing and operating nursery schools on our
campus and in the community. These schools now operate
on a Federal budget of neurly « quarter of a million
dollars a year, They are ours, and yet I've never
heard them discussed as a possible useful tool for the
School of Education, :
Would it not be wise to restudy at this time the graduate
program in education, with the purpose constantly in mind
of providing the best possible individual courses to train
in the best possible manner, the teachers, administrative
officers, and the counsellors for the schools of our state?
How can the prestige of the teuching profession be increased
in this state?
How can we use our influence toward better pay, and a
more respectable piace in the social organization of
the communities of this state for the teachers?
How can this Faculty contribute to the interest of students
and future students, in the teaching profession, either

during their early years in the University, or even in the

high schools?