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PENALTY OF
FREiS CHOICE
The 4»ry which Dr. Alant T. Watermen has told the Atlanta conferee of the American As* eociation! for the Advancement of schools physics, of onr not new. But be has interesting twist, stsrman, director of tits cience Foundation, was talking About Russia’s gain, as compared! to us, in the production of trainea scientists. The fault, he said, lias at all 1st els of American education] and especially in the schools. facts illustrate his point half the Nation’s high fer both chemistry and 1954 only 4.3 per cent school students studied physics] But in Russia almost
half of th^ total instruction time in the secondary schools was defence and mathematics. >26 and 1954 Russia 420,000 engiperiod in this country, 480,000 were graduated. This gap, jwith its obvious threat to our relative military and .industrial posit k>h, can be expected to widen rather than to diminish. What hasi caused it? And what can be done about it? .
Dr. WatexWan hinted at part of the answer. |He said be doesinbt know the; extent to which individual
liberty Jin Russia has been to make possible its be hastened to add no desire to depart principles of free
leers. ■ j] done? We may has not ptrw engineers without sacrificing {individual liberty. The voted to Between graduated I about In tie sacrificed I gains. And that there . from Amer choice of So what: be sure that | duced 620,000 . !i, is
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