Evening star., 1960-07-31
BY DIR. BENJAMIN FINE

North American Newspaper Alliance
QUESTION: 1 am a junior
in high school and am inter-
eSted in a good engineering
school. Can you name the best
one?
ANSWER: There is no one
best" engineering school or
college. Much will depend upon
your own needs. your back
ground, and what you want out
of college. Among the top
notch engineering schools are
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Mass. !;
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Troy, N. Y; Carnegie In
stitute Of Technology, Pitts
burgh, Pa; Illinois Institute
of Technology, Chicago, and
California Institute of Tech
nology, Pasadena, Calf.
QUESTION: want to be a
schoolteacher. I've heard con-
flicting views on whether it's
best to go four years to q
teachers college, or four years
to a liberal arts college. What
do you think?
ANSWER: Personally, 1 be-
lieve in a good liberal arts
background for all teachers
Now, you can get it either in g
school of education or in q
liberal arts college. Ideally
would suggest four years in g
liberal arts college, and a fifth
year in a school of education
That would give you a we'll
balanced education. You car
learn the techniques of teach
ing, believe, in one year.
QUESTION: I'd like to gC
abroad next year and do grad.
uate work. will be a senior
at Cornell starting in Septem.
ber. What are my prospects
ANSWER: Two hundred
fellowships for graduate stud!
in l3 foreign countries will bt
offered for the academic yeal
1862. Your application vii
be accepted until November /
1860. through the Institute o.
international Education, l Eas
SiXty-seventh street, New York
81. Fellowships are available
for universities in Austria
Canada, Denmark, France
Germany. Iran, Israel, Italy
Mexico, the Netherlands, Pc.
land. Sweden and Switzerland
QUESTION: AS a troubled
parent. I am concerned at thu
growing costs of college tuition
I will have a daughter in col
lege this fall, and a son IL
college two years from now. d.
you expect college costs vii
continue to go up? What ma!
I expect as the average cos
/ 70 nv children.
ANSWER: College costs hav,
risen steadily since 1947. Th,
better name colleges averagl
$4,000 a year. Even the publ,
colleges will cost you arount
81 500 annually. Tuition in col
leges such as NIT, Harvard
Princeton, Yale and Columbi;
has reached, or is approaching
the $500 mark. With extras
you must figure on $500 {
year for each child, or $1,000
for the four-year college pc
riod. In the case of girls, tn,
figure goes up a bit. You mus
expect to pay nearer to $1,000
year in the good women
colleges. Fortunately, man.
colleges provide scholarships O
student loans. Don't hesitate t,
. ask for financial help If yol
, need it to keep your boy or gir
. in college.
QUESTION: My third-grad
! child has suddenly developed
a distate for school. Up to nov
she liked it. Now she fight
with her classmates and say
her teacher picks on her. Wha
shall 1 do?
ANSWER: An easy answe
would be to see psychologist
But that may not be necessary
Why don't you visit your child
school, talk to the teacher ant
|! find out what, if anything, ha
gone wrong. This sounds a.
. though your daughter has hat
a run-in with one or two o
, her classmates. Or, somethin;
may have happened at home t.
: give her a sense of insecurity