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One can see in teacher education a trend away from the old omnibus" first course" in principles and history to a study of living, changing communities. Common sense and a desire to serve people have brought about this change, but further progress would seem to depend upon other factors. One factor is the ability to assimilate technical knowledge, to learn what has been found out in years of research study. Time and again, in field work, one will find this lack of knowledge on the part of teachers and of school heads. Worse still, college professors take school consultant jobs on difficult community problems without having any background of community study or any particular insight into the structure of community life. When sociologists and cultural anthropologists study" community," what do they study? How do they proceed, and what has been found out? This is a long and involved story but an exciting one, a kind …