Conference of NE Teachers Begins Today

"Education Toward What End" is the theme of the 58th annual conference of the Harvard Teachers Association which convenes at 10 p.m. today in Littauer Auditorium. The meetings, jointly sponsored by the Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Teachers Association, will continue through the week on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

More than 1,000 teachers and school administrators from secondary schools and colleges in the New England area are expected to attend.

High spot of the four day series of discussions on problems of education will be the presentation of the Inglis Lecture at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Fogg Art Museum by Harold Benjamin, Dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland.

Idiosyncrasy

Benjamin, a well known educator and the author of several books dealing with education methods, will speak on "The Cultivation of Idiosyncrasy.

This morning's opening session is a panel discussion of the role of specialists in learning problems. Theodore Ingalls, assistant professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health represents the Harvard faculty on a panel of seven.

On Friday such subjects as: educational institutions' adjustment to progress, successful classroom practices, the responsibility of social education for the teaching of human relations, the implications of atomic energy for social education, and the implications of modern penology for social education will be reviewed.

More Conferences

Four separate conferences are scheduled for this morning. One on educational administration will meet in the Parlor Room of PBH, another on elementary education gather's in Littauer Auditorium, and meetings of English and Social Studies teachers will take place in the Hotel Commander and Agassiz Theater respectively.

In the afternoon at the final session of the conference, Alonzo G. Grace, Director of the Education and Cultural Relations Division of the Military Government for Germany, will deliver a talk on the conference's keynote, "Education Toward What End."