Education Careers Hold Surprises, State Teaching Experts at Forum

Contrary to popular belief, teaching is not quiet and unexciting. Harold B. Gores, superintendent of public schools in Newton, emphasized at the career conference on education last night.

Nothing that many people shy away from teaching careers because they think that teaching is too uneventful, Gores said that teaching involves as many risks and challenges as any other profession.

Judson T. Shaplin '52, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Education, warned of the approaching crisis in education resulting from the increasing postwar birth rate. He said that first the elementary schools, and later the high schools, will be hit by a tidal wave of new pupils. Over 800,000 teachers will be needed in the next few years, he added.

William G. Saltonstall '28, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, asserted that the main difference between teaching in day schools and teaching in boarding schools is that in the latter the teacher is with the students all day and night, thus having closer contact with his students than the former.

"Tapping of spiritual resources is education's biggest task for tomorrow," said J. Wendell Yeo, Dean of the Boston University School of Education.