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President's Message
Challenging Horizons In Education
T. V. GLOVER
TSAT President
1960-1961
The horizon is the point at which
the earth and the sky seem to meet. An
attempt to reach this point is always
thwarted because as we approach what
seemed to be the point of interest, it
appears to recede or move away. How-
ever, it is interesting to note that ex-
periences in our effort to reach the
horizon sometimes bears abundant fruit
for the benefit of mankind. The horiz-
ons challenged Columbus and he found
a new world, the horizons challenged
Stienmetz and he discovered the alter-
nating current and adapted it to the
use of industry and the salvation of
many businesses.
In our preparation of our program
for the Teachers State Association of
Texas you are invited and urged to
consider the emerging problems of the
profession as challenges on the horizons
of education. The changes and adjust-
ments which must be made in order for
our programs of education to be effec-
tive serve as the basis for educators re-
ferring to 1960 and the subsequent nine
years as the "Decade of Destiny." The
adjustments and changes which must
be made qualify for special attention.
Hence the characterization of challenge
is employed. Re-deployment of person-
nel, team teaching, auto-instructional
devices, new horizons in teacher pre-
paration, the identification and teach-
ing of the gifted, pre-service prepara-
tion of administrators, the re-examina-
i.ion of offerings, the emphasis in pro-
fessional pride and the elevation of pro-
fessional standards are reiterative
enough to command our attention and
important enough to merit exploration
in the interest of personal development
and personal competence.
It is difficult to explore such a topic
as "Challenging Horizons in Educa-
tion" without succumbing to the urge
to predict. However, if we can explore
without predicting we might find our-
selves on safer grounds in solving prob-
lems pertinent to education and to our
association. On the other hand if we
can take an interpretative look at
events already visible and ask what
kind of rational choices could be in-
ferred from an examination of these
events we shall have laid the founda-
tion for the solution of some of our
problems.
There are forces that must be con-
sidered in the effort to fashion answers
to any questions that might arise in the
exploration of Challenging Horizons in
Education.
The first factor is the technological
upheaval. There are two aspects of this
situation that we must consider in our
effort to explore our subject. One of
the aspects of the problem is that we
are destroying occupations requiring a
law level of literacy and skill and re-
placing them with an increasing nui 1-
ber of jobs requiring a higher level of
education, a greater capacity to use
mathematics, to communicate effecti\e-
ly and to exercise judgment. The exist-
ence of unemployment in the midst of
prosperity is a phenomenon of the
American labor scene. However, in-
vestigation will reveal that the short-
ages are in occupations requiring a his^h
level of education or of specialized
training or skill. A concomitant of this
situation is that un-employment is prin-
cipally in the ranks of men who have
been trained to do a particular job and
not very much more. A process is at
work in our economy which is destroy-
ing low-skilled and non-skilled jobs at
the rate of three per cent per year. The
cumulative effect of this process over
the years will be tremendous unless edu-
cation can assist in reliving it.
History indicates th&t changes in
modes of life and thought have always
followed a clash of cultures, producing
new demands on education, but today,
suddenly all cultures of the whole world
are thrown together. The implication
of this situation is one of the challenges
to education.
The astronomical expansion of
human knowledge is another force
which has implications for education.
It is now necessary for an educated
(See PRESIDENT'S, Page 13)
PARTICIPANTS IN PRESIDENT'S CONFERENCE—Reading from left to right: R. L. Gregory, presi-
dent, North Texas District Teachers Association; V. McDaniel, executive secretary, TSAT; E. K.
Downing, president, West Texas District Association; Dr. H. G. Hendricks, president, Southeast
Texas District Association; U. S. Morgan, president, Central Texas District Association; T. V. Glovsr
president, TSAT; Mrs. Geneva Canton, vice president, East Texas District Association; Miss Katie A.
Stewart, president, Classroom Teachers Association; E. M. Foxx, president, Southwest Texas Disti.ct
Association; Mrs. I. E. Stafford, president. South Texas District Association.
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