Self-Paced Instruction: An Innovation that Failed

might also be wise to include training in sociology and anthropology, inasmuch as candidates with these qualifications were considered most appealing by all the high schools, and the same types of courses proposed for current teachers would be important for future teachers. Furthermore, teachers with this extra preparation might spark the creation of social science departments in the high schools in which psychology would come to be viewed as a subject matter in its own right, rather than, for example, as the history teacher's extra course. Such teacher-training programs, successfully implemented, would thus benefit the high schools, in that such programs would provide the high schools with productive, professional teachers equipped to offer more than general psychology courses. The students as well as the teachers themselves would also benefit from teacher-training programs: teachers would be able to acquire the knowledge and the competence to represent psychology as the science it is, and students would be able to receive a more comprehensive education in psychology, which up to the present has been lacking.