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Community Relationships in Vocational Education

by Stephen F. Voorhees - 1943

The great weakness of academic education has been its detachment from life. The growing strength of general education is its search for life. The soundness of vocational education is its foundation upon life. Everybody must work, so everybody must learn to work. "Everybody," young in school but old on the job, becomes the parent, the employer, the farmer, the mechanic, the mayor, the Rotary Club member, all pursuing their vocations.

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This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 42, No. 1.

Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 44 Number 9, 1943, p. 69-81
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 20408, Date Accessed: 9/22/2020 6:17:28 PM

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Stephen Voorhees New York City Board of Education E-mail Author STEPHEN F. VOORHEES is the Chairman of the Advisory Board on Industrial Education for the New York City Board of Education.

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