Website owner: James Miller
As our society becomes ever more technological and complex it puts ever greater demands on the work force in the form of requirements for knowledge and understanding of complicated subjects. The acquisition of all of this knowledge requires a huge amount of work and effort in the form of study over many years in addition to a great deal of perseverance, stick-to-it- iveness, and character. All this is just too much to expect of the common, ordinary person. Many people in our society today are intimidated by the operation of cameras and VCR's. The ordinary person does not even have the mental discipline and attributes to follow a set of simple directions properly. A great many students are graduating from our schools unable to even read. To expect the ordinary person to acquire the type of knowledge and understanding to function in the coming technological society is just unrealistic. Besides it all turns into a competitive, survival-of-the-fittest, dog-eat-dog rat race and there can only be so many winners in such a race. The average person will just cop out, drop out. He will be discouraged and demoralized just by looking at the situation facing him. Nov 1996
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