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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 27, 1958
Ready For College?
Some students here on the campus may be wasting their time. They are wasting their time because some of them started college before they knew what kind of work they wanted to do.
In the latest issue of Harper's magazine, the president of the Carnegie Corporation, John W. Gardner, expresses the difficulty of a high school graduate starting college with no idea of what he wants to study.
In an article titled "How to Choose a College, If Any." Mr. Gardner writes: "The late bloomer is usually a boy. Girls tend to develop in a fairly steady and predictable fashion, but the boy may go through a protracted period of dawdling and interest in everything but his own education."
It appears that when the decision is being made whether to go to college or not, the answer maybe should not be either yes or no, but, not now. A prospective college student shouldn't push himself into college just because there's no
place else to go. He could waste a couple of years studying the wrong subject.
Why shouldn't the high school graduate wait until he knows what he wants to study before he goes to college? He wouldn't spend four years working for a piece of paper that he found out earlier he didn't want.
Often the student will not go to college right away and wait for a year or two. But when he does go he's ready to plunge into the work he wants to do.
But sometimes the student out of high school will get a job and see the emphasis that is put on an education. He'll have a chance to try several different lines of work to get an idea of what he wants to do.
Soon he might wake up to a college education, and when he does he will be better off than some students who started college right after high school. There won't be any wasted motion.
—Doug Parker
Science Needs Women
Know what's missing in this science race against the Russians?
Glamour—spelled W-O-M-E-N.
Mrs. Rebecca H. Sparling, a woman engineer, points out that our girls have been left at the starting gate in the science sweepstakes.
In Russia, up to 40 per cent of the graduating engineers are women while in the United States, the figure is less than one per cent. Says Mrs. Sparling, a housewife, mother and metallurgist at the Convair Aircraft Plant here.
She blames it on public opinion, old-fashioned educational policies, and the fact that it is harder for a girl to work her way through college. Another factor, says Mrs. Sparling, is the lack of information about the science-engineering scholarships available for girls. These awards go begging because there are no takers.
As for educational policies, Mrs. Sparling said, "Many of our nation's top technical schools admit only a few women as graduate students, while most co-educational schools maintain an
ollment ratio of about two-and-a-half men to girl."
She also notes that many high schools discourage girls from higher math courses.
"In aptitude tests for scientific aptitude, about six per cent of the boys and four per cent of the girls are found to be qualified," she said, "but less than one per cent of our graduating engineers are women.
"In Russia, students are trained entirely on the basis of aptitude rather than sex. Russian students don't go to school because they have the money—they go to technical schools only if they have gotten a high grade in the aptitude examinations."
Mrs. Sparling believes the situation in the United States may change. "I think the President's council on women power reaches the same conclusion--that women are our greatest untapped source of potential scientists and engineers.
—United Press
What To Do About Education
Since Sputniks I and II, the cry for something to be done about the American educational systems has gone up from newspaper editors all over the country. The questions seem to be "What have we been doing wrong?" and "What can we do to correct that wrong."
Here are a few of the typical editorial comments concerning education from editors in different sections of the country.
Dallas Morning News: "The battle for the survival of the world may be won in the test tubes of the classrooms in chemistry.
"Honors and incentives may have to be offered students who distinguish themselves in classroom chemistry.
"Something must be thought up quickly to keep us at least abreast of other nations in matters scientific, although America should settle for nothing less than world leadership in this modern field."
The Wichita Evening Eagle: "It is the intermediate or high school youngster of the 1950s"
who passes up solid, academic courses in school who will be 'out of luck' in the space missile science age just ahead of us.
"One of the ways to make sure that your offspring are not left out is to see to it that they take solid courses that require work (yes homework!) and thinking while in the lower grades."
Denver Post: "It was with great disgust that I reviewed last Sunday's Post and read of the kindergarten training being offered our children at West High School; In this age of rapidly advancing technology and science, I can think of nothing more ridiculous than teaching cooking to high school boys and machine shop to girls.
"How long will it take the people who are responsible for planning our school curricula to realize that they are wasting the most receptive years of our children's lives with such rubbish as ceramics, cooking for boys, basket weaving, etc., and leaving them woefully unprepared for life in the complex world of tomorrow?"
Evelyn Hall
Quotes From The News
WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower, denouncing the attack launched by critics of his foreign aid program?
"It is based on slogans, prejudices, penny-wise economy and above all, an outright refusal to look at the world of 1958 as it really is. What the ostrich-like opponents of mutual security seem to be saying is: 'Billions for armament, but not one cent for peace!'"
HOUSTON—"Mystery man" Robert R. McKeown, after surrendering in Houston to federal authorities to face charges of violation of the national firearms act in a suspected Cuban rebel invasion plot;
CHICAGO—Grover C. Hall Jr., editor in chief of the Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser, in charging the northern politicians "caterwaul about Jim Crow" in the South, but fail to deal with it in their own back yards:
"I was trying to get here before I was picked up. I didn't want any little policeman to pick me up."
"Your Illinois politicians caterwal about Jim Crow in Montgomery, Ala., but grapple not with the fact that there is more residential segregation in Chicago than in Montgomery."
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