| Sumario: | The article focuses on the importance of developing reading habit among teachers. It seems fair to expect that the teacher himself will use reading as one means, and perhaps the chief means, for learning about his own field, its problems, the findings of research bearing on those problems, the experiments being currently tried out, and the better procedures developed. In addition teachers will, of course, be under obligation to be better informed citizens than the average person, since they have accepted a role of leadership recognized in the very name of teacher. Recognizing the importance of the teachers keeping abreast of the times, boards of education the country over have encouraged summer study. Often they offer a bonus or increase of permanent salary or advancement as motivation. Teachers should be reading regularly and should find it relatively easy to know what is being done in their own fields. The difficulty, not realized by those who do not teach young children and adolescents daily, is that frequently the teacher is literally too tired at 4 o'clock to go to a library or bookstore and that by the time he is rested, stores are closed and the library far away.
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