Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies

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in knowledge, thought, and appreciation of its necessities and potentialities . 4. In two respects education will be challenged : (a) the emerging economy will involve the placing of restraints on individual enterprise, propensities, and acquisitive egoism in agriculture, industry, and labor and generally on the conception, ownership, management, and use of property, as the changing policies of governmentalready indicate ; and (b) the emerging economy,

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by the reduction of hours of labor and other measures, promises to free the ordinary individual from the long working day, exhausting labor and economic insecurity, thus providing him with opportunities for personal development far greater and richer than those enjoyed under the individualistic economy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . 5. The implications for education are 'clear and imperative : (a) the efficient functioning of the emerging economy and the full utilization of its potentialities require profound changes in the attitudes and outlook of the American people, especially the rising generation-a complete and frank 34


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