Education: 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....

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