606 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

A totally new educational pattern, an enriched set of intellectual
priorities must emerge — one that can respond to the anxieties and
pressures of our era, that can accommodate both the knowledge and
population explosion. We are challenged to develop and support a
vastly-improved and more appropriate educational system, one which
preserves the best of our past yet provides for the new intellectual and
psychological needs. This ability to adjust and adapt our total educa-
tional system to give each child "the wish to learn, " the aptitude and
appetite to continuously learn, is a weight that counts very much.

Attitude training should be instituted within our school system as
a coequal partner of academic education. Today's children must recog-
nize that education is not an isolated process but a continuing one.
Our students should be encouraged to relate to society in a positive
manner. Increased emphasis should be given to instruction covering
our immediate social and environmental problems. Prejudice and
pollution, crime and delinquency, narcotics and sex should be ap-
proached frankly, honestly and promptly by our public schools. Early
attitude education can help control prevalent domestic problems. Ex-
posing our children to the challenges of our society, stimulating our
students to think constructively and critically, will encourage them to
be great citizens, to recognize their vital role and stake and responsi-
bility in the community. A continuous review and revision of our
curricula to embrace attitude training alongside the classic three R's
is a weight that counts.

Greater emphasis, recognition and investment in particular areas
of education are essential. In our technologically sophisticated society,
in our complex economy that thrives on calculated obsolescence, a
vastly improved, industrially-oriented vocational education will be-
come increasingly important.

The necessity of compensatory education was dramatized all too
vividly this summer when violence erupted in seventy-six American
cities. 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 com-
pensate for a worse than average environmental background.

Adult education will become imperative to prepare the majority
of our citizens to keep pace with the rapid rate of scientific change.
Our public schools, community colleges, and ETV must be ready to
accommodate this increased demand.