The Problem Of Vocational Education PDF Download

Excerpt from The Problem of Vocational Education It is life which trains men - life abounding in deeds and thoughts, among men and things. Wherever there is vital interaction between a (mind and its world there is real education. Educative power is, thus, broadly distributed. Its centres of influence are the social institutions - school, home, church, vocation, and neighborhood life. Together they bear the total work of training men, with all the economy and efficiency which comes through a division of labor. In proportion to the relative strength and weakness of their structures, they supplement and reinforce one another. This distribution of educative power among the social institutions is by no means a fixed division of burdens, set once and for all by tradition or reason. The needs of society lay their heavy demands now upon one agent, now upon another. And in the shifting currents of social progress, some institutions once powerful are left weakened, if not helpless, while other institutions wax strong to meet the demands of the time. The homes of the urban industrial classes have iii 28461. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.