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Caption: Booklet - What is Involved in a Vocational Education (Davenport) (1915)
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M u m boy end lis own girl shaU l>< edu tted « 5 for pJwtftom •** ««M *< i Uingtopau ,r * * I 1 r . i ' i l **< < • . art. J J ft fc * k-^. whole content m is this Jus bt iuse the world went I alcrp and had bad dreams it must not, up n awaking pro* I to B ih evcrj thing that has been done durin its long t mnolen j PROPOSI o\ FOR AGREEMENT In a discussion involving action and far-r hing us -it is well not only to know the pound thoroughly, but ascertain dearly the points on which agi men! maj be i hed. T this end the following propositions involving ncess ns -in 1 ith si. - , n submit tod for agreement: 1. Without vo itional education of the masses, the [lowing* nsequences are inevitable: 1. Bach now generation assumes the burdens f the last without sufficient preparation; for "general know! Ige is not necessarily specific power. 2. The ordinary individual is unable to care for himself and his family as self-respecting members of s i r he is not prepared to engage successfully in the activities whereby we live. 3. The major industries, like farming and maun turing. i.\o not develop; for their further progress is jitioned upon the findings of science and the practii f educated men, 4. Society is not well served it' its fundamental w Is are inadequately or irregularly met; for all ne« ssil g lik< the food supply, should be not only ample and economi d but at all times certain. 5. The highest civilization does not develop; • r further advance rests upon the proper development of those indus trios concerned with food, clothing, and shelter that ine> itabh absorb the most of the time, thought, and energx of man 6. Tin- ultimate resull is the development o( a groat mid die class existing precariously by grinding toil, a submerged and parasitic minority living hopelessly b\ its wits •in? small leisure class also largely parasitic'. : stratification re suiting from the possession of monev or other inherit '1 l vantage rather than from education and personal initiative I r the mdy agency oi real progress is educated individual lllUi efficiency. " 7. A society so stratified 18 undemocratic and mn t I governed from without, fov its elements are too divers* • ini rests too antagonistic, and its objects too ill d.th** 1 • I rmit of government by the vote of the majority '
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