DISCUSSION.

The article presents comments of economists Lloyd G. Reynolds, Peter O. Steiner and Carey C. Thompson on various research papers related to economics education. A paper on programmed learning suggests that more information is needed about what students know about economics on entering college. But as the efforts of the Joint Council on Economic Education become more effective and economics penetrates the curriculum of teacher training institutions, more and more students will come to know what a trade union and a business corporation are. Another paper calls into the question about accepted folklore related to elementary course in economics. The implied solution is to use a programmed learning text along with the basic text in the early part of the course in order both to provide a more solid foundation and to free time for the application of theory to social policy. The tests of the efficiency of programmed learning are interesting and suggest a need for further experimentation and research. One test of success in the elementary course is whether, at the end of it, the student approaches policy questions a bit more like an economist, a bit less like a "layman."