Scientific Manpower, Volume 8The Foundation, 1960 - Engineering Includes the papers of the 5th (1956)- Conference on Scientific Manpower held at the 123rd- annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, other selected papers given during the year 1956- , an account of highlights of significant developments during the year, ... |
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Page 25 - The heart of the matter is that we are moving with headlong speed into a new phase in man's long struggle to control his environment, a phase beside which the industrial revolution may appear a modest alteration of human affairs. Nuclear energy, exploration of outer space, revolutionary studies of brain functioning, important new work...
Page 2 - ... percent in all manufacturing. As recently as 1958, the proportion of nonproduction workers in the 5 defense industries had been 36 percent. IMPACT OF DEFENSE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Over half of all research and development work (R&D) in the Nation is financed by the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission. In addition to the work done in Government laboratories, the defense agencies pay for more than half of the research...
Page 25 - Until recent years the total intellectual capacities of our Nation have never really been fully challenged. But they are being challenged today. Our intellectual resources will be adequate to meet our needs only if all the brainpower of our population is fully developed and utilized. Well-trained minds are among the most critical of our present national assets, among the scarcest and most valuable of our resources.
Page 30 - Higher salaries are a first requirement, but we need also to recognize the great importance of what teachers do and to accord them the encouragement, understanding, and recognition which will help to make the teaching profession attractive to increasing numbers of first-rate people.
Page 25 - Science Education The crisis in our science education is not an invention of the newspapers, or scientists, or the Pentagon. It is a real crisis. The USSR is not the "cause" of the crisis. The cause of the crisis is our breath-taking movement into a new technological era. The USSR has served as a rude stimulus to awaken us to that reality. The heart of the matter is that we are moving with headlong speed into a new phase in man's long struggle...
Page 25 - In a frontier society, such as that of America of 100 years ago, it was natural that physical prowess and bravery, inherent in the pioneer, should have been held in high esteem," the report said. "Today the frontier is intellectual; the scholar, the research worker, the scientist, the engineer, the teacher are the pioneers.
Page 3 - To build well-rounded curricula and in each subject to stress intellectual content and provide for recognition of intellectual achievement. To recognize that teaching is a task of primary importance in modern society and therefore to encourage, aid, and reward competent teachers in all fields. To recognize that our modern society needs human talents of a wide variety, and that it is essential that every individual be given the maximum opportunity to develop his particular talents to their utmost....
Page 26 - Let us each make a beginning, however small. It takes but the moving of a single pebble to start an avalanche.
Page 4 - Officers, the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification, the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards of the National Education Association, and the National School Boards Association.
Page 26 - If we fail in our hold upon quality, the cherished American dream of universal education will degenerate into a nightmare." Item: A college diploma is the sine qua non for almost any white-collar job nowadays, and nearly everybody wants one. In the scramble, a lot of students are going to college who cannot succeed there. At the Ohio State University, for instance, which is required by law to admit every Ohioan who owns...