Monday Morning, February 5, 1962 Features 2 Art MMMMi— 7 Schedule of Eventa 3 MUSÍ« s»i^..,es,.se.,sssesssa 8 , 9 B ooks — - ........... 4t Ftlxus ' »Mt»»».»»»»—#»« »» w m • 10 Radio-X Ï & Theatre Michigan Stole New» SPOTLIGHT, Monday Morning, February 5, 1962 Fate of U S. Lies in Education Education must solve prob­ and unification of education age is a crucial one and will By DIANE TURNS | lead the country to the number become more so in the coming SPOTLIGHT Feature Writer one position in culture, industry lems in three major areas in standards throughout the . I and military power. order to meet the challenges of country. Kleis saM that a na­ years. Ernest O. Melby, profes­ tional commission to set the sor of education and former America is facing a crisis in How can our present schools the future. MSU educators said, j education—a crisis upon which They are: standards for the local dis­ Montana State University pres­ meet these challenges for the tricts to carry out would work ident. said there is a two-way rests the fate of the nation, future? 1. Raising the standards. of | American schools today are education. — j the best. solution to the problem: more, faced with the problem of edu­ The answer is simple: They 2. Finding more and better j “With social mobility it makes prestige for teachers and high­ cating tomorrow’s citizens to can't. teachers. a difference what education is er salaries. —• _ 3. Raising funds to meet fu- like all over the United States, J “ If-we come to put a high ture needs. ~ v ' \ he said. "I can't say, ‘l.et AÍ price on education, this would The first problem that edu- j kansas worry about its own be the biggest help,” he said. cators are facing today is that problems.’ Most of our prob­ x At present the starting sal­ of raising the standards of edu-1 lems áre national problems.” ary for teachers is $1.000 less Spotlight cation to meet the needsTif tb-i The second problem facing than for eolJege.j'caduates in morrow. education of the future is that industry. \ The sought-after quality edu-1 of finding more and better The third and perhaps biggest cations consists of top-notch j teachers. r- problem that education faces is Oh Bridge currículums, teachers and! Since America’s school popu­ that of raising .funds to meet buildings and adequate support lation is growing more than future- needs. to assure the foregoing compo­ twice as fast as the population At present the federal gov­ of the nation, there is already By A. K DRURY his 17 points. Marshall in E ast! nents." ernment indirectly pays Dept, of Surgery and Medicine passed and I with 23 points,j Jn the area of quality cur­ a shortage of 135,000 qualified four per cent of total school 1 made a skip-shift response of riculum, languages^are being teachers causing many school costs but is working on a plan Forty points in the combined; 2 Diamonds, showing more taught in elementary school systems to go on double^ or to share the burden with hands and no slam—not even a i ^an 18 points. Pedrey, in West, today with continuous progres- triple sessions. state and local governments. SMALL slam! Take a look at showed he held nothing by sion through high school. Prin­ Many educators say that the It is estimated that in 10 the North anil "South and sym­ passing. ciples ijf physics and geometry i "push-button learning of the years the cost of education w ill pathize with James Denison, Denison bid~2 Hearts, which are being taught to third teaching machine is one way of double due to the increase in assistant to the president, and showed 4 Hearts, hoping South graders in a few experimental relieving today’s' pressure on school-age population, increase jjivscli. _ had 4 also or even 4 Spades areas. And some junior high education. in.costs, children- moving info North (1X1 lor the next bid. A slam looked j school students are studying To increase class size and more expensive secondary Denison likely to mie, so I called a i advanced mathematics. spread thejnfluence of good schools and children staying S A Q It 8 j Gerber 4 Clubs, which ask ed j Educators -are striving for j teachers to more pupils, edu­ in school longer. II A 9 8 4 ¡for aces at a lower level than ; greater continuity of subjects j cational television is growing To meet these rising costs. D None tltlackwood and is generally tis- that will allow the gifted stu­ in use. Material presented on President Kennedy has recom­ (KJill j ed by this group. dent to enter college after two ! TV is of a higher quality than mended that more than $9 bil­ West East The 4 Spade response showed or three years of high school. that ia the average classroom lion he appropriated to schools Charles Pedrey Roy Marshall partner with the two missing-, Three MSU educators said and the teacher does not have. over the next four years to pro­ Assoc. Prof. Asst. Director aces: 4 NT asked for kings and that what you get out of edu-1 ; to bother with classroom vide at least $30 a year per of Speech Emeritus the response of 5 Diamonds cation depends on your previ- chores. pupil, to build more college M-7 S J 9 5 3 2 showed partner had the miss­ ous educational experience. Kleis said that in addition buildings and to extend the Na­ II 10 7 6 5 2 H .1 3 ing king. x John A. Fuzak, dean of stu­ to the education community and tional Education act. D .1 9 : 5 3 D 4 Now the partnership can dents, said that school is not mechanical teaching devices, The U.S. Office of Education U 7 « C 18 5 4 2 count all the aces, alTthe kings, j the only place to get an edu­ a second-level teacher better has also proposed that teacher South and at least 3 queens, 34-plus t cation and that the other edu­ í qualified than those we know salaries be 50 per cent higher Drnrv high points. b«»sides a seven-1 cational experiences tend to ■ today will appear. by_ 1964 and that 607.000 class­ _S K 6 4 card Diamond suit headed by " ~ raise the standards of educa­ This teacher aid, he said, will rooms be built in the next dec­ i l K U A-K-4J. It seemed absolutely j tion in school. w'ork with a smaller number of ade. — D A K O 19 8 6 2 logical to bid 7 NT. RusseiLJ. Kleis. professor in students while a professional, Arthur S. Flemming, former HH C A Pedrey led the" Club 7. the 8 continuing education and mem­ more highly paid teacher will Secretary of Health. Educa­ Neither vulnerabie, mi part |-was played from the dummy, ber of the Adult Education As­ teach several groups at a time tion and Welfare, summed up score. The. hiddling: as 1 expected no trouble with sociation and the National As­ after more hours of prepara- popular feeling when he said: North East - Sooth West the contract, even though West sociation of Public School Adult j tion. “The nation will not achieve 1 C pass 2 D pass played the Club 5 and I played; Educators, said that 20 years pass j - “We won't, however, have the long-term objectives in the 2TI 4 C pass the ace. __ from now teachers will not be the teaeher-pupil relationship field of education that we must 4 S pass 4 NT. 'pass In actual play, an effort to the-purveyors of knowledge. 5 I) pass 7 NT pass we now know,” he admitted. achieve unless the Federal gov­ set up a squeeze on West Jo "We need to learn from each “Students will be guided to re- ernment assumes a far greater pass pass try to dislodge the Diamond | other." he said. "The doctor, < Ipening lead Club 7. jack resulted in a three-trick t i sources for information.” of the total responsibility that needs to know what the electri­ The problem of teacher short it has to date.” imagine Dummy laying down jsi*t. The conceding of two Dia- : cal engineer knows.” 17 jtoints¡ oppos¡ite 23 in your 1mond tricks would have held; Klëis said that schools will be CAMPBELL’S SUBURBAN SHOP CAMPBELL’S SUBURB A] own. wii1 b a seven-card1 suit1the loss at two tricks, but one the centers of learning for the headed by tinr A-K-Q! The must always try to make a j whole community, and the edu­ claim of all the tricks was jcontract if there is any possible; cative community will all work s Final Week challenge■lUand the challengers !way. _ to educate the student. i0 proved right. setting-.the band, There is no slam contract j Discussing the improvement ! X o f otir by three tricks. * makeable as the cards lay Six j o X All thi:s happened at a noon;NT would have been a ..more : VI bridge )¿ame at the Men’s jprudent contract; because when Faces of Fiedler Club It Deni-!y o u Faculty ist week. hold a long suit, there are The many faces of Maestro Sale son was o|M>ning bidder with ‘ See BRIDGE page 8 ¡5CQ Arthur Fiedler range from — Bach ta modern jazz7 Fiedler U Sweater« a native Bostonian, comes from 00 one jrrniip 12 Price .