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8 6 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Youngsters Find Champion in President Forgotten Carnegie Corp WK9 False Emphasis Said Placed on iqher Education By LOUIS CASSELS . .; ' UPI Correspondent Each year, nearly one mil . lion American boys and girls enter college. But another 7 million of the same age group terminate their education when, or even before, they graduate from high school. Much attention has been focused lately .on the problem of providing enough space in our colleges - and enough scholarships - to bring higher education within reach of every youngster who is cap able of benefiting from it. But very little national con cern; has .hecn expended, on the boys and girls who don't go. to college - not because they lack money,- not because they can t find room, but simply because they aren't blessed with (he academic ability necessary to do col lege! work I , These forgotten youngsters have now. found an. eloquent champion in John Gardner president of the Carnegie corporation: In the annual re port of this great philanthro pic . foundation, which, .has done so much to aid higher education, Gardner has some trenchant things to say. about the false emphasis which Americans are now placing on college as the only route to success. "The great' prestige that college education has achiev ed is the source of many, false notions," says Gardner, "and one of the worst, is .that, it is the only form of continued learning after high, school, . . "Most parents, teachers and counselors, have given .little or no thought to the ways of learning and growing, that do not, involve college. The re sult is that college appears to be the only path to self-development." This national obsession with college degrees has two "un fortunate consequences," Gardner asserts. "On the one hand, it exerts pressure on the young per son to continue his schooling whether or not he has any taste or aptitude for It. This Is at ; &R&ff JL-- w I "ill -. k 1 4 S PROGRESSING Work is progressing on straightening' dozers and scrapers are shown removing large rocks from and widening sections of Highway 62 between Shady Cove ! the road surface. Most blasting work has been completed and Prospect. The area pictured is about 10 miles south of; on. the sections. Paving will be completed later this year.! Prospect. Construction was started late last summer. Bull-: 1 " often harmful to him; it is always costly to society; and it leads to make-believe edu cation. ' 'On the other hand, if he drops out of high school or doesn't go on to college, he Is led to believe that he has landed oh the scrap heap and that further learning or growth! is out of the question. This is disastrous for his mor ale and in the long run dan gerous to society. ; t , ; Gardner proposes a num ber of specific, practical steps to give a better break to the youngsters who don't go to college. Here are some of his in gestions: 1. High schools should pro vide more and better voca tional training courses,: not only for the boys and girls who are capable of learning a skilled trade, - but - also for those in the lowest' ability group, who can at least be prepared for relatively simple jobs in business or industry. 2. Every high school should provide continuing vocational and educational counseling to all boys and girls who leave school short of college. This counseling should continue until age 21. It should include advice on the. many ways in which a person may continue his education .-. for. example, through training programs offered by corporations' and unions, at night schools, or in correspondence courses. Some schools-may wish to-operate their own employment serv ices; others can work closely with federal and' state' em ployment' agencies. ; 3. For the benefit of young sters who are inclined to drop out ; of high school before graduation, schools should provide some kind of transi tional "work:study program," under which a student spends part of each week in school, and part on a, job. Provision should also be - made for a young person who has drop ped out of school to resume his formal education a year or two later, when experience has taught him how great a handicap is his lack of a high school diploma. ; - i Objection Anticipated. , . 1 , Gardner anticipates the ob jection that such services would be , '.'expensive." ! ."It would be an added ex pense to the schools, but. not necessarily to : society as a whole," he says. "Young peo ple who fail to get jobs or who become juvenile delin quents are a costly burden on the whole community; and every boy or girl whose abili ties are not developed ii a loss to society. "It is better to spend mon ey preventing such outcomes than to spend it later picking up the pieces. Beyond these immediate re forms, Gardner pleads for a new perspective on education itself. "The root of the difficulty." he says, "is our bad habit of assuming that the only mean ingful life is the 'successful' life, defining success in terms of high personal attainment in the world a eyes. Today at tendance at college has be come virtually a prerequisite of high attainment in the world s eyes so that it be comes, in the false value framework we have created, the only passport to happi ness. No wonder our colleges are crowded. "The crowding in our col leges is less regrettable than the confusion in our values. Human dignity and worth should be assessed, only in terms of those qualities of mind and spirit that are with in the reach of every human being. "This is not to say that we should not value achievement. We should value it exceed ingly. It is simply to say that achievement should not be confused with human worth. Our recognition of the dignity and worth of the individual is based on moral imperatives and should be of universal application. . 18 Mumps Cases Reported in County Eighteen cases of mumps headed the list of communica ble diseases reported to the Jackson county health depart ment last week, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician. Diseases reported include mumps, Medford, 9; Phoenix, 1; Central Point, 2; Ashland, 6; chicken pox, Ashland, 2; Jacksonville, 4; Eagle Point, 1; measles, Ashland, 10; Phoe nix, 1; tuberculosis, Medford, 1; strep throat, Medford, 1; pink eye, Medford, 1; influ enza, Shady Cove, 3; Medford, 4;i Ashland, 3; Trail, 2; pneu monia, Eagle Point, 1; Gold Hill, 1; Ashland, 2;. Rogue River, 1; and scarlet fever, Medford, 1; and Prospect, 1. Tiros Satellite May Help to Spot Summer Storms Washington - (DPD -This country hopes to put up a third Tiros weather satellite next summer in time to help spot tropical storms during the 1961 hurricane season. In early January Tiros II, launched Nov. 23, photo graphed from more than 400 miles in space a cloud pattern in the Coral sea which en abled the hurricane warning center at Brisbane, Australia, to give ships an accurate re port on the direction the storm was moving. "We hope to get Tiros III up next summer in time to help us spot hurricanes in our own neighborhood," said Dr. Harry Wexler, chief scien tist of the U.S. Weather Bu reau. . ' Tiros III, it is expected, will be an improvement over both Tiros I, launched April 1,. and Tiros II.. : Only with Tiros II have weather scientists attempted to make prompt use of cloud pictures for help in daily forecasting. This has necessi tated an effort to distribute Tiros II information as quick ly and widely as possible. Because Tio facilities exist for getting actual photographs to Australia in a few hours after they are taken, U.S. I weather experts have been sending "word codes" con taining cloud descriptions to Australia. ; On the basis of these codes, the Australians have been able to construct weather maps which, as in the case of the Coral sea hurricane, have been helpful in making forecasts. It was . a .cloud analysis based on Tiros II pictures which first tipped the Aus tralians off to the fact that they were about to get relief from the most prolonged De cember heat wave in 43 years. The . Tiros II information covered a region of ocean south of Australia for which few; accurate observations were available. The satellite on Dec. 29 re ported a cold front moving in, and Australian forecasters were able to predict that the heat' wave would be broken. Their forecast was exactly on the button. The Tiros satellites are mainly experimental. The Na tional Aeronautics and Space administration expects to launch a more "sophisticated" weather eye, Nimbus, in 1962. Weather bureau enthusiasts believe an operational satel lite system could be put to they could get the necessary approval and money for the project. Such a system, Wexler said, could have prevented tha foulup in forecasting which preceded the "inaugural bliz zard" of Jan. 19. Two days before the storm hit the capital, there had no sign of it in observations taken from "below the wea ther." . The early forecast for Jan. 19 called for fairly light snow. It was revised later in the day but not soon enough to prepare the city for the fall which practically buried it. The fault was in timing. 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