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121 <br /> capabilities and needs — is a challenge to all people who <br /> have responsibility for planning, supporting, and operating <br /> an educational program. The strength and future well-being <br /> of the country depend in large measure upon the manner in <br /> which people in every local school district, in every county, <br /> in every state, and in the nation as a whole respond to this <br /> challenge. <br /> The schools serve not only individuals as such, but the <br /> totality of society as well — society with its ideals, its values. <br /> its purposes, its commitments, its institutions, its enterprises, <br /> its governmental processes. These two ends are in no way <br /> contradictory. They are but two dimensions of the same pur- <br /> pose. In serving the individual, the schools serve society as a <br /> }' whole, for society is but the totality of individual lives, pur- <br /> poses, and actions. <br /> ;Y <br /> When one looks to the circumstances in which the youth <br /> n <br /> of this generation are maturing, getting an education or fail- <br /> ing in the :attempt, seeking employment, and striving to <br /> carve out places for themselves in the world about them, he <br /> sees . ... <br /> 1. Technological advance that has created new relation- <br /> ships between people, education, and work, with tech- <br /> nical skills and knowledge, mental alertness, and cre- <br /> ative capacities taking priority over capacities to en- <br /> dure physical labor. <br /> I <br /> 1 i 2. The specter of unemployment worrying families, frus- <br /> trating trating neighborhoods, and haunting political leaders <br /> c — even at a time when there are more people em- <br /> ployed in this country than ever before. j <br /> young More K <br /> 3.R� y g people entering the labor force when job � <br /> opportunities in the unskilled and simpler occupa- <br /> tional. fields are markedly decreasing. <br /> 4. Science and mathematics becoming increasingly <br /> im-portant in almost .every facet of the total culture <br /> and affecting the lives of people in every family and <br /> neighborhood in a vital way. <br /> 5. The security of the nation as a whole dependent upon <br /> the expansion of economic enterprise and upon scien- <br /> tific advancement. <br /> 6. Consuming ideological conflict gripping the world, <br /> with much of the public budget, much public policy, <br /> I <br />