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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1961
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
Youngsters Find Champion in
President
Forgotten
Carnegie
Corp
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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
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and widening sections of Highway 62 between Shady Cove ! the road surface. Most blasting work has been completed
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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.
Wexler said the system with
enough satellites to keep the
storm under continuous sur
veillance as it moved east
would have exposed the storm
work some time next year if earlier for the true villain it
turned out to be.
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