JUNE 1, 1914.-Referred to the Committee on Education
and ordered to be printed

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1914

Need of national grants to the States.

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Need of national appropriations for studies, investigations, and

reports..

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Recommendations...

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Introduction....

Size of the problem.

Crying economic need for vocational education..

1. To conserve and develop our natural resources.

2. To prevent waste of human labor.....

3. To provide a supplement for apprenticeship..

4. To increase wage-earning power.

5. To meet the increasing demand for trained workmen.

6. To offset the increased cost of living...

7. A wise business investment....

8. Our national prosperity at stake.

Social and educational need for vocational training equally urgent..

1. To democratize the education of the country.

(a) By recognizing different tastes and abilities and by giving

equal opportunity to all to prepare for their life work....

(b) By extending education through part-time and evening in-

struction..

2. For its indirect but positive effect on aims and methods of general

education

(a) By developing a better teaching process through which chil-

dren who do not respond to book instruction alone may be

reached and educated through learning by doing....

(b) By introducing into our educational system the aim of utility.

3. Industrial and social unrest due in large measure to lack of voca-

tional training..

4. Higher standards of living a result of better education

Public sentiment shows the need for vocational education.

Opinions of State superintendents..

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16-29

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17. 18

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