Paper: LEARNING - A GATEWAY TO PROGRESS

You could hardly have picked a more important topic for a meeting of production people. Oil lifting is not only the ultimate aim of a great deal of out work in the production end of the petroleum industry, but it is also a part of the business in which some of the most important improvements and changes are being made. In oil lifting, you have to keep running these days just to keep from losing ground . . . Fortunately, however, there has been a growing awareness throughout our country that learning can be-and should be-a lifetime proposition. You can see this awareness in industry, and you can see it in the universities. In industry, training programs are flourishing as never. before-training covering every pertinent subject from fast reading to slow driving, from the fundamentals of safety to the fundamentals of supervision. In the colleges, extension courses and short courses and night classes have thrown open the gates of knowledge to all who would enter.