Dimensions for Progress

Lawrence G. Derthick
Additional contact information
Lawrence G. Derthick: Education Branch, Office of Military Government in Bavaria

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1959, vol. 325, issue 1, 78-86

Abstract: Over the past half century there has been a rapid growth of professions and occupations which require college training. The future need for college trained persons must be filled from a group of young people which is smaller in pro portion to the total population than at any time in recent his tory. To be short on quantity in this group from which our leaders will emerge makes it more important than ever to make the most of the quantity available. Society looks to organized education for whole new fields of specialized training as well as refinements and extension of existing programs. Much greater emphasis will have to be placed upon learning as a lifelong process. To do the educational job America needs will call for substantial reorganization and expansion of school plant and facilities and bold and imaginative efforts to make tools of instruction more effective. The dimensions of opportunity which lie before us in the field of educational research are practically boundless but research in education to date has been meager. It is obviously going to take great sums of money and all of our ingenuity and effort as a nation to make the necessary progress to fill the trained manpower needs in every capacity.

Date: 1959
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271625932500112 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:325:y:1959:i:1:p:78-86

DOI: 10.1177/000271625932500112

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().