ERIC Number: ED293760
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Aug-21
Pages: 11
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Education, Ethics, and the Ultimate Peril of Technology.
Feldman, Marvin
This paper calls for the reunification of liberal and vocational education, arguing that, in a technological egalitarian society, all young people should have both. The paper's central point is that technology is the enemy of the social continuity that makes stability and self-development possible. The signs of social discontinuity recently documented by social critics are the marks of an era of rapid technological change. The U.S. scientific revolution has created a discontinuity between one generation and the next, and in the words of the philosopher J. Glenn Gray, "the scientific revolution has so altered the pattern of our lives that the experience of one generation is no longer very relevant to the next." Educators should reunite what has been artificially separated. Education can provide the essential bulwark against the forces of impersonality and standardization. Vocational educators are leading the way for the reunification of liberal and vocational education. (SM)
Descriptors: General Education, Social Stratification, Social Values, Technology, Vocational Education
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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