Debating the Direction of Vocational Education
In The New Republic , a pundit argues that "vocational education is, irreducibly and without unnecessary mystification, education for the pursuit of an occupation."
Not so, counters another. Vocational education should have "as its supreme regard the development of such intelligent initiative, ingenuity, and executive capacity as shall make workers, as far as may be, the masters of their own industrial fate."
Such a debate would be timely in political journals today. These words, though,...
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