On Selecting an Occupation in Secondary School

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People are engaged in many thousands of different occupations in the national economy of our country. These people perform any work that society needs, no matter how difficult, fatiguing, monotonous and, at times, even dangerous it may be. If one asks what occupations people should be trained for in order to work in the national economy, there can be only one general answer: for all required occupations. However, such an answer would not be correct for the secondary school with production training. We must not forget that the secondary school is only one channel for the occupational training of the youth. In addition to the task of training qualified workers, the school has other important character training and educational aims. The secondary school, therefore, cannot assume the burden of training the youth for all occupations. It must take into consideration both its other goals and its resources. In other words, the secondary school must confine itself to training pupils for only a certain number of occupations. Thus there arises the problem of selecting the proper occupations for the secondary school to teach. This is a most difficult and complex problem, one whose solution requires the joint efforts of economists, educators and psychologists.

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