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Show Educational Meeting Stresses Vocational Training For Youth "It Is evident that If the State Is to follow the trend of vocational training In the country, we must expand our curriculum to Include more vocational training fields, In which the training needs of young people can be met in a minimum of time", said A. W. Stephenson, C. B. Cooley and Eugene Hardy, Branch Agricultural college representatives who attended the annual conven tlon of the American Vocation Association held In Los Angeles December 16 to 18. Mr. Hardy Is of the Metal Trades department of the B. A. C, Stephenson Steph-enson of the Business department, and Mr. Cooley, Instructor of building build-ing trades la chairman of Vocational Vocation-al training at the college. The theme of the conference this year was that of adapting the school to the training needs of the masses of our young people, or to the 60 to 70 per cent of our youth who do not profit from the formalized training now being offered in our high schools, Junior and Senior colleges. The American Vocational Assocla. tlon Is composed of educational leaders In the fields of agriculture, Home Economics, Vocational and Industrial training and Business education, ed-ucation, it was an inspiration to attend at-tend meetings and get the points of view of leading educators from all parts of the United States. Every state In the union was reoresented at the conference. American Vocational education is I subsidized by the Federal Government Govern-ment under special acts of Congress. B.A.C. representatives attended sectional meetings in problems of local Administrators and Directors, Expanding Vocational training in the Junior colleges, What's new in Business Education, Distributive Education Ed-ucation across the country. Special meetings sponsored by the business men's associations of California at the Merchandising Institute of Los Angeles. Improvement of Teacher Training in Industrial Education, and Training Managers of men. Ex-curslons Ex-curslons and tours were conductd to trade and technical schools in the Los Angeles area. Summarizing the sentiment of the conference the B. A. C. representatives representa-tives issued the following statement upon their return: "As the nation becomes more Industrialized In-dustrialized it is evident that masses mass-es of people will have to be trained to do the things that they will do anyway in order to make a living. More than 70 per cent of our population pop-ulation is engaged in Industrial and agricultural pursuits, and leu than 10 per cent are engaged In professional profes-sional activities. The trend in education edu-cation throughout the country la to modify and revise our curricula to meet the training needs of the large majority of our young people. If the schools are to serve American youth, the educational offering must be broad enough to allow at least 80 per cent of them to graduate from high school or Junior college with a marketable skin." |