American educators must give more attention to the gifted student, President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 said yesterday in the speech which he returned to the United States to deliver.

Speaking to 5000 people at the Michigan State centennial celebration, Conant called for general use of advanced standing plans similar to Harvard's, and the use of special programs for gifted students.

These changes are a part of the overall readjustment in educational policy necessary to cope with America's new role in international politics, the German High Commissioner argued. He also called for increased emphasis in foreign affairs, history, and foreign languages in school and college curriculums.

"The contracting globe has forced us to become more sophisticated about foreign policy, neither optimistically sentimental, nor pessimistically cynical. This means that education must prepare students to think about the whole world, and it must prepare all of them to do so as well as possible," Conant said.