Defined as the skills development component of education, vocational education can and should become the mortar that cements together a unified educational experience for the individual that will culminate in meaningful and productive results. The relentless advance of technology gives us the key to new, more versatile, vocational education. The health field, the area of environmental control, aviation, the aerospace industry, the physical sciences, and related engineering fields are all examples of developing areas with specialized needs to be met by the new vocational education at the postsecondary level. Secondary school vocational education must prepare students in all kinds of core knowledge and skills that are not purely abstract or academic but that have application beyond a single occupation or occupational area. Enrollments in both secondary and postsecondary vocational education have been increasing, and more Federal funds have been allocated to this area. Vocational education has brought the schools into the adult community, creating a constituency--a builtin support group for further development in this area. (Author/MW)