CHILDREN'S CONCEPTS OF LANGUAGE IN LEARNING TO READ

A sample of 357 students from two colleges of education selected some personal qualities which they considered necessary for successful attainments in their colleges and in their practice schools. They also selected certain problems which they had experienced in either of these institutions. Colleges gave rise to more problems than practice schools, and ‘professional’ problems were more numerous than ‘social’ ones. Colleges required comparatively more ‘individualistic’ personal qualities than practice schools, and schools required more qualities slanted towards ‘society's’ well‐being.