Tips for Teachers

A pamphlet issued last week at Columbia University Teachers College by the Bureau of Education Service (helps find positions for teachers), considered the following factors essential to job-hunting pedagogs, appended the following suggestions:

"1) Basic preparation in training and experience.

"2) Health.

"3) Personal appearance. Good taste in dressing can be acquired by many who now do not have it. Hair, skin, nails and teeth can be attractive.

"4) Personality. Personality can be developed. Tact can be cultivated. Tempers can be controlled. Unpleasant personal characteristics can, in many cases, be replaced with pleasing ones. Voices can be made pleasing and well-modulated . . ."

Although the bureau deplored the fact that middle-aged instructors are often discriminated against in favor of younger ones, it cautioned that "persons who are near 40, unless they are financially inde- pendent, should not resign their positions to do graduate work with the expectation of getting a better position in a year or so. They may have trouble getting any position, let alone a better one. In most cases, it is advisable to do one's graduate work in summer sessions or while on leave of absence if one is 35 or beyond. . . . The bureau holds that this discrimination on the basis of age alone is unfair. . . . This prejudice, however, arises from conditions deep-rooted in the economic and social structure. . . ."

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