EM 34: Shall I Go Back to School? (1945)
By Francis J. Brown
Consultant, American Council on Education
Revised by E.G. Williamson
Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota
(Published June 1945)
Introduction: “Just Wait Till I Get Out of the Army!”
- What do you learn in school?
- Training for a particular kind of job
- General education
- Who pays the cost?
- What about the old job?
- Why more training?Are there jobs?
- How long will, the payments last?
- How long will training take?
- What can you do best?
- Does age matter?
- How about marriage?
- Some other factors
What’s It Like to Go Back to School?
What’s the Best Job Preparation?
- When haste makes waste
- What else besides the job?
- We’ve got to keep alert
- The great role of education
- Why do we behave like human beings?
- Here’s to your health
- What makes it tick?
- That creative urge
- What does that mean?
- The role of guidance
- Will there be much red tape?
- For further help
- Which way?
- Discussion techniques
- Reading
- Questions for discussion
Primary source documents from 1944–46