Clinton News-Record, 1986-09-06, Page 2Page 2—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1986
BACK TO SCHOOL
The big picture of education
By Tony Carlson
Labor Day is over and gone and millions
of young people have returned to school.
School is not necessarily a forbidding
place for everyone. But given a choice bet-
ween six hours in class and a day at the
beach, who among us is goinkto choose
chalkboards and desks?
On the other hand, every September is a
time of renewal for students and teachers
alike. Notebooks, as yet untouched and
smelling of clean paper and fresh ink, are
full of the promise of a new term.
What better time, then, to think about the
Big Picture of education. Just what do all
those students - from our youngest children
on up to the mature men and women slugg-
ing it out in night school - face when they
complete their formal studies.
What courses should they take to prepare
themselves for the future, to make sure
they'll qualify for a job? it's a question that
has no easy an wer because no one owns a
high-speed crystal ball that can predict the
direction which rapid change will take.
What one can do,however, is look at to-
day's trends to see what generic ski' is will
be in demand.
For a start, most of the new jobs that are
appearing in our North American economy
today are coming from small businesses
which did not exist just five years ago, when
today's high school graduates were still in
the primary grades.
Not only that, more and more statistical
studies are showing that the vast majority
of us will have two or three careers in our
working lifetime. That's not just two or
three different jobs, but different careers,
requiring constant training and retraining.
In the United States, for ' instance,
research has revealed that one five
Americans changes jobs every year nd one
in 10 shifts gears into an entirel new
career. Indications are this trend, fa from
abating, is becorningg more_. pronounced.
What course do you teach to prepare a stu-
dentfor something that will be bra . d new
when he or she graduates? What do you
teach to equip the students for wrenching
changes five, 10 or 20 years down the road?
The broad implications for educators and
stt dents alike are clear. Young people of all:
ages must learn how to learn. Armed with
fundamental literacy, they must be shown
the rudiments and habits of learning so that
their education does not stop with their
schooling.
More important is attitude. Students must
have the flexibility of mind to accept' the
need to upgrade their skills every few years.
That is the kind of teaching we need today,
the kind that passes on basic skills and en-
courages questing minds.
From the ranks of these people will we
draw the economic leaders of the future.
More than ever before, they will go into
business for themselves, or carve out suc-
cessful careers in small business.
As their habit of learning spreads through
the culture, it will ensure a constant renewal
of this more precious resource: people.
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