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Show VOCATIONAL EDUCATION How can education meet the ever-changing occupational occu-pational challenges today and in the years ahead? Far too frequently, a general high school diploma is a ticket only to an unsk.lle djob. Unless signidcant changes in the structure of vocational education are made, society may see large numbers o fyoung people unprepared to contribute. Society, through its concern for the unemployed, has placed a high value on employability. Educators must be willing to respond positively to present day job skill 'PTursmcnts. Vocational education is absolutely abso-lutely essential to our continuing con-tinuing growth. It is not and never has been the exclusive jurisdiction of the formal education ed-ucation system. U. S. industry's indus-try's in-plant and on-the-job training programs suggest that these are workable alternatives to our inadequate public vocational voca-tional education system. Business and industry must assume the leadership role in "work education." If we are to have a sufficient number of adequately trained workers, instead of hard-core unem-t unem-t ployed, then technical skills must be nurtured by educators, educat-ors, parents, and members of industry. Through this combined com-bined effort we can develop the skills necessary to keep America growing. My Neighbors ) "I should go off light hearted heart-ed and gay into that stream of traffic?" |
