Time-saving in professional training

The author concludes as follows: "A great variety of evidence indicates that full-time professional education should be completed at an earlier age than was usual before the war. Instead, wartime interruptions of education and current plans for improvement of professional training are both operating in the other direction. There is much evidence that (a) by advancing students according to competency rather than educational time-serving, and (b) by various means for facilitating the work of the ablest students, time in school can be reduced and several years added to professional career. Psychology should take the lead in adjusting total educational programs to development and change throughout the life span, to individual differences, and to possibilities as to efficiency in learning. Such adjustments are especially needed right now."