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some of the others who have been working on
this longer than we have by a good @eal,
point out that the really only way you are
going to beat this downward trend Le to get
the science teachers in the high schools
interested in science themselves to the extent
that they resell it to their students and thie
4s not too easy a proposition when you find
out that some of the high school teachers
were trained, so far as their formal education
was concerned, aither in music or art or liter-
ature or athletics or something like this and
then they turn around and are told that you
will teach a science course and 30 it isa
fairly rouch proposition,
2.
Pian the content of the course
of instruction = which we vlan to give — s0
as to provide enough general information con-=
cerning the use of atomia energy, so as to
equip the teacher with material for his general
science course, both for lectures and for
demonstations.
The idea baok of this is that the
science teacher himself sees boys and girls
every day during the nine month period of
their school,
You ought to give him the
tools and let him present them to the children,
because what has happened is that you are
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