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Education for Living. The educational fraternity hears many complaints about the inability of engineers to write, read, and spell. It is therefore refreshing to learn from a teacher of psychology, in a letter to the editor of Science, that students in the social sciences have parallel difficulties, demonstrated by a spelling such as “Cornepincus,” probably translatable freely as Copernicus! Of course, science and engineering teachers often pass the buck to the high schools, whose teachers feel that the grade schools are ineffective, and at the latter level there is concern for the quality of work in the kindergarten.