As we continue to explore various not purely technical issues that come up in the experience of any professional, it seemed useful and perhaps even surprising to consider professional training and education from the perspective of subsequent working experiences. In this issue we shall hear eloquent voices describing their personal recollections and evaluations of Nursing School, Engineering School and Architecture Schools. In some subsequent issue we shall return to this general topic and present reflections from other professional fields.

Two recent issues have, as you remember, focussed on the relations between architects and their clients. The long-range goal of those issues was to work toward guidelines for more effective and more mutually respectful relations between these two groups. In the shortterm, either of these groups could benefit from studying the observations made about its members by the "other" group.

The short term objective of this (and a similar later issue) is simply to collect information on how professionals feel about the training and subliminal messages they received. In what ways, for instance, were they "socialized into the profession"? Were the subliminal instructions appropriate?

The long term goal of these issues of PERSPECTIVES is to find ways (and persons in a position to put these "ways" into effect) to reemphasize the ethical and the service components in all genuinely professional education.