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DID YOU HEAR AGAIN? (Continued from Front Pip) 1 si an has had 4 years of physics five year of language,' seven years of mathematics. Tltis of course jrev presents a smaller number percentage wise than we graduate, but in f Russia the students with the ability ^ ! have the courses. The average J^m* erican youth never comes in contact with these subjects. It is oiie thing to run a school system with courses of varying purpose and difficulty, to fit the student. It is quite another to have a system inv, which most of the students avoid tough subjects and get awayv i with it. This lack of objectiveness can* not be blamed on mass educkipn, particularly when we stop to think^ ;,!■ that almost every country in Europe has more children in school^ percentage-wise than we. do here in the United States. We have no __ monopoly. A deeper rjid more - basic reason our educational drive is lagging is the tremendous anti- , ; * f inteflectulistn of the American people and the lack of respect we show those who are educated. The ihard working student is, looked down on. The youngster who goes to school with the will to work is ;f regarded as a “queer duck” and comes up against great numbers of Students just drifting through. . Another factor in the gloomy . , educational picture is the ever present lack of teachers. We now 135 thousand teachers short * and because of the low pay and long hours that accompany that
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