Teachers Association Will Discuss Topics on Education in a Republic

The Harvard Teachers Association will discuss "Education in a republic" in its 64th annual meeting, to be held March 19 through 26, at the University.

Nearly 50 New England teachers and educational administrators, plus medical authorities administrators, plus medical authorities and national consultants, will participate in the program.

Henry W. Holmes '03, co-director of the Civic Education Center at Tufts College and past dean of the Harvard Graduate school of Education, and Carroll Kilpatrick, editorial writer for the Washington Post and Times-Herald, will be featured speakers of the meeting.

Holmes will discuss the new demands democracy is making on education in the Inglis Lecture March 23, and Kilpatrick, a Nieman Fellow in 1939-40, will speak on "Federal Aid: Is It a Political Question?" at the meeting's final session.

Eleven other panel discussions and addresses are also planned. They will cover guidance, remedial teaching, human development, intergroup relations, problems pf school boards, and new emphases and materials in American History.

The New England Conference of the National Association for remedial Reading will open the series on Saturday, March 19, with a discussion on "Who Is Responsible for Learning?"

A conference on Guidance will take place the following Monday, and the subject of Tuesday's discussion will be current research in human development.

Child Training

John W. M. whiting, associate professor of Education, will speak at a dinner meeting Thursday on "Child Training and Personality Development," and three concurrent panels are scheduled for Friday's program.