Nor will the hack, the Jack-of-all-trades, still found in some of the smaller art schools, suffice.

Only a few years ago a middle western college circulated a request for a teacher of interior design. At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position ``must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art.'' This kind of irresponsibility toward their students can scarcely build a strong professional attitude in the future designer.

We must build a corps of highly professional teachers of interior design who have had education, experience in the profession and are willing to take on the usual accompaniments of teaching -- minimal income and minimal status among their confreres.

Considerable specialization in teaching subjects such as architecture, furniture design, textiles and color is also desirable.

In all ``degree'' courses in interior design a number of ``academic'' or ``general studies'' courses are included. It is only fair to demand that teachers of courses in English, history, psychology and so on be as well informed in matters of art, especially interior design, as are the art teachers educated in the academic subjects. The proper correlation of the art with the academic can be achieved only if this standard is observed. The matter of sympathy of the academic professors for art objectives also must be taken into account.

One technical question of school organization comes to mind here. For proper accreditation of schools, teachers in any course must have a degree at least one level above that for which the student is a candidate. Since there are almost no schools in the country offering graduate work in interior design this rule cannot at present be observed. Indeed, it has only been a matter of the last few years that reputable schools of art have granted degrees at all. The question, however, cannot be ignored for long. The basic problem involved is that a college setting up a graduate school must have an entirely separate faculty for the advanced degree. Most professors in the course must, naturally, again have a higher degree than the course offers. One solution is the acquisition of degrees in education but it is a poor substitute. It is a sort of academic ring-around-a rosy and you solve it.