Vocational Education in the Cosmopolitan High School
Abstract
One may safely predict that vocational training in some form will occupy a larger place in American education in the future then it has occupied in the past; but among teachers as well as laymen there is a lack of agreement regarding the scope, character, and value of vocational education. One reads articles on this subject in general and professional magazines and listens to addresses at educational meetings, and he is confused by the different claims which are made and the varying points of view which are presented. Some declare that we should train boys and girls specifically for definite occupations which they will enter the moment they leave school, while others oppose this view and hold that our training should concern only the general sciences or principles of skills upon which all occupations depend. Some advocate that vocational and general education should be rigidly distinguished the one from the other, while many persons protest that such a separation would undermine American democratic institutions. Again one frequently hears devotees of vocational education say that a pupil will receive better discipline of mind end character in working with tools and shaping materials to definite purposes than he will in studying the so-called cultural subjects such as history literature, foreign languages, mathematics, and the like.
Subject Area
Higher education|Career and technical education
Recommended Citation
O'Brien, Philip F, "Vocational Education in the Cosmopolitan High School" (1928). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097131.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097131
