ii is saa Dm true mat college freshmen these days just can't •read, write, and figure." Not so long ago Roanoke College found it necessary to furnish a course in "remedial reading" for those ilaving difficulty along tiuil Ime. Such a course back in the early days of Roanoke would have been preposterous. Dr. Robey bluntly confirms: "There has been a progressive de terioration in the reading ability of students over the past 15 years." For a number of years now the college has also offered non-credit course in basic algebra, simply because a lot of the high school graduates couldn't do simple mul tiplication and division. Why can’t these students read, write, and figure? Dr. Robey says its because the schools arc full of teachers who are loaded with "education courses but who know nothing to teach." One professor aptly put it thusly: They teach you how to teach, but not what to teach. Why do our public teachers get loaded down w i t h education courses? Because the State De partment of Education says a certified teacher must have not less than 18 hours of these sub jects. Roughly, that is a total of six education courses. Ironically, our big colleges and universities require absolutely no education courses. Some of the nation's finest teachers would be unemployable in our public schools because of this require ment:. Obviously something is wrong.

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