440 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

basic skills. Adult education will become an imperative for the ma-
jority of our citizens in a rapidly changing, technologically sophisti-
cated society. Three areas present the best potential to fulfill this
need — expanded utilization of public school facilities, the community
college and educational television. State and local governments must
capitalize upon the possibilities of all three through increased invest-
ment and imaginative innovation.

Four: We must become more flexible and daring in policy so that
our schools express the same appetite and attitude for change that we
seek to engender in our students. New intellectual priorities should
justify and generate new programs. Increased emphasis should be given
to providing information which relates to our immediate social and
environmental problems. Prejudice and pollution, crime and delin-
quency, narcotics and sex should be approached frankly, honestly and
promptly by our public schools.

Five: Vocational technical education, although half a century old,
has failed to be fully appreciated or exploited. We must debunk the
old myth that our vocational schools exist only for children with
limited aspirations and abilities. For in our technologically sophisti-
cated society, in our complex economy that thrives on calculated ob-
solescence, the exact reverse is true. It is the skillful student who will
require and seek a vastly improved, industrially oriented vocational
education. This new assumption demands that we ascribe new em-
phasis and apply new resources to our vocational schools.

Six: The necessity and importance of compensatory education
was dramatized all too obviously this summer. We cannot afford to
deny or delay measures which will propel the child of a deprived
environment into the American mainstream. We cannot negate or
neglect the truth that a certain segment of our society requires a
better than average educational experience to compensate for a worse
than average environmental background.

Seven: Even our traditional academic education is subject to
scrutiny. The prevalence of student discontent, hippy enclaves, un-
dergraduate use of L. S. D. are manifestations of alienation caused by
a degree of unreality and inappropriateness in our school systems.
Somewhere along the line we have failed to impart and reinforce
cherished values. We must come to terms with our school population
explosion and revitalize academic education so that we can reach the
student as an individual, encourage responsibility, stimulate the desire
to be a great citizen.