EDUCATION: Air Conditioning

First graders will soon be taught that two plus two makes four—but four airplanes, not four apples.

At Columbia University Teachers College last week a group of educators, mindful of an air-minded world and with the blessing of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the U.S. Office of Education, began work on a manual showing how aviation can be welded into every subject in the curriculum. Under Teachers College's Professor Nickolaus L. Engelhardt, a staff of research experts was busy assembling lessons from the air:

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