Job opportunities in College teaching are on the decline, Dean Samuel T. Arnold, of Brown University, told an audience which gathered in the Leverett House dining hall last night to hear a conference on careers in education. Smaller college enrollments will cause parallel drops in teaching personnel, Arnold explained.
However, an expansion in the market for teachers, in the elementary and secondary school area will compensate for the shrinkage of college faculties, C. Elwood Drake, acting principal of Newton High School said.
Drake described education as 'a tough business. You have to love it," he said. "It's a 25 hour per day job with low pay." In hiring teachers, Drake said, he was not interested in subject matter specialists as in competent handlers of boys and girls.
Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, spoke briefly and served as moderator throughout the program. He painted a less grim picture of the teaching profession than did Drake.
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