American Youth Act: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on S. 1463, a Bill to Provide Vocational Guidance, Vocational Training, and Employment Opportunities for Youth Between the Ages of 16 and 25; to Provide for Increased Educational Opportunities for High-school, College, and Post-graduate Students; and for Other Purposes. March 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, 1938U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 303 páginas |
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Página 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United States...
Página 16 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Página 16 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
Página 37 - The next essential step in such a program is the development of a new service— <>ne which will successfully correlate the functions of the schools with those of the employers of labor. The feature of this service must be one for collecting occupational and employment data on a Nation-wide scale. This we believe can best be done through an employment service, national in scope and inclusive in character.
Página 5 - I have determined that we shall do something for the nation's unemployed youth, because we can ill afford to lose the skill and energy of these young men and women.
Página 32 - Youth face an occupational future in industry that is becoming more mechanized, less concerned with highly developed mechanical skills, less given to practical instruction outside the industrial plant, and more insecure for one with a single vocational skill. In a word, mobility has taken the place of fixity, and uncertainty the place of security.
Página 5 - The corporation shall have capital stock of $500,000,000, subscribed by the United States of America, payment for which shall be subject to call in whole or in part by the board of directors of the corporation. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $500,000,000, for the purpose of making payments upon such subscription when called...
Página 154 - Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Homer P. Rainey, Director, American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education. Frederick L. Redefer, Executive Secretary, Progressive Education Association. Reid Robinson, President, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Philip Schiff, Headworker, Madison House, New York.
Página 36 - This discussion raises the question of the functions of the junior and senior high schools relative to vocational education. Studies indicate that not more than 5 percent of all workers in industry require skilled training and that approximately 95 percent of these are now trained on the job under the supervision of a foreman. Less than 1 percent are trained in the schools. Other recent studies indicate that approximately 75 percent of all types of jobs (exclusive of the professions, semiprofessions,...
Página 179 - We look at this country of ours. We love it dearly; we are its flesh and marrow. We have roamed its roads ; we have camped in its mountains and forests ; we have smelled its rich earth ; we have tended its fields and dug its earthly treasures. We have toiled in it. Because we know it so well, we know that it could be a haven of peace, security, and abundance for all.