Tools for Learning.

The article focuses on the benefits which teachers receive from reading and gives suggestions for choosing books and periodicals. The demands upon them are heavy. Never has there been a time when teachers have had so much responsibility. The way they handled rationing problems is but an index of their growing responsibility in the community. One asks where the time can be found for a planned program of reading if one does all the things expected of a teacher today. The first point that comes to mind is reading for relaxation. Reading of humor, fiction, poetry, or any form that is restful to the individual is important. Reading about current life is very important to one who would be a helpful member in the community. The daily paper, supplementing the radio, with a weekly review of the news seems indispensable to a competent, active member of a community. Reading for information on a subject is essential for intelligent action relative to that subject. Reading to further one's own growth is vital to leadership. Unless one is himself growing he cannot stimulate growth in others.