ABSTRACT

Education should be a farsighted national enterprise of a nation and the success or failure in it may depend upon the talent of the instructors. Nowadays Korea is in need of a great number of teachers owing to the expansion of education in quantity, and a high leveled technique and specialty is required due to the complexity and variety of education. The objective of this study, on the basis of the talent test of the students of music college, muic education department students and teachers college students, shall be in the detection of a reasonable reform measure putting their view of teaching profession, recognition and reaction together. The results of talent test to 1000 students of these three groups show that music college students are far above the average. (M=237.20, %ile 87) The students of music education department (M=216.02, %ile 50) and teachers college students (M=193.80, %ile 17) are below the average. Judging from the results above, there remaim something to be desired to foster the ideal teachers, and there must be some points of issue in the fundamental talent of instructors. As for the view of teaching profession, they show on the whole an affirmative response but it would be a hasty conclusion to regard it as an optimistic view of teaching profession. The urgent measures to be taken to foster able music instructors are to reorganize the curriculum and to uplift the educational aim in accordance with their peculiality and specialty.