Dimensions for Progress

Abstract

Over the past half century there has been a rapid growth of professions and occupations which require college training. The future need for college trained persons must be filled from a group of young people which is smaller in pro portion to the total population than at any time in recent his tory. To be short on quantity in this group from which our leaders will emerge makes it more important than ever to make the most of the quantity available. Society looks to organized education for whole new fields of specialized training as well as refinements and extension of existing programs. Much greater emphasis will have to be placed upon learning as a lifelong process. To do the educational job America needs will call for substantial reorganization and expansion of school plant and facilities and bold and imaginative efforts to make tools of instruction more effective. The dimensions of opportunity which lie before us in the field of educational research are practically boundless but research in education to date has been meager. It is obviously going to take great sums of money and all of our ingenuity and effort as a nation to make the necessary progress to fill the trained manpower needs in every capacity.